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612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
828 The Robin is the One That interrupt the Morn With hurried—few—express Reports When March is scarcely on—
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
I watched the Moon around the Hou… Until upon a Pane— She stopped—a Traveller’s privile… And there upon I gazed—as at a stranger—
XXXIX I MEANT to have but modest need… Such as content, and heaven; Within my income these could lie, And life and I keep even.
947 Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause? “A Soul has gone to Heaven” I’m answered in a lonesome tone— Is Heaven then a Prison?
453 Love — thou art high — I cannot climb thee — But, were it Two — Who knows but we —
659 That first Day, when you praised… And said that I was strong— And could be mighty, if I liked— That Day—the Days among—
873 Ribbons of the Year— Multitude Brocade— Worn to Nature’s Party once Then, as flung aside
276 Many a phrase has the English lan… I have heard but one— Low as the laughter of the Cricke… Loud, as the Thunder’s Tongue—
59 A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard—
35 Nobody knows this little Rose— It might a pilgrim be Did I not take it from the ways And lift it up to thee.
Not any sunny tone From any fervent zone Find entrance there - Better a grave of Balm Toward human nature’s home -
452 The Malay—took the Pearl— Not—I—the Earl— I—feared the Sea—too much Unsanctified—to touch—
313 I should have been too glad, I se… Too lifted—for the scant degree Of Life’s penurious Round— My little Circuit would have sham…