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LXII BEFORE I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see As other creatures that have eyes, And know no other way.
Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place - Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face - All of Evening softly lit
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—
A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair - Since she and I had met and playe… Decade had gathered to Decade - But Time had added not obtained
881 I’ve none to tell me to but Thee So when Thou failest, nobody. It was a little tie— It just held Two, nor those it he…
400 A Tongue—to tell Him I am true! Its fee—to be of Gold— Had Nature—in Her monstrous Hous… A single Ragged Child—
575 “Heaven” has different Signs—to m… Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn,
819 All I may, if small, Do it not display Larger for the Totalness— ’Tis Economy
THE Brain—is wider than the sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will include With ease—and you—beside— The Brain is deeper than the sea—
The Face we choose to miss - Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away.
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook,
906 The Admirations—and Contempts—of… Show justest—through an Open Tomb… The Dying—as it were a Height Reorganizes Estimate
XL I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
17 Baffled for just a day or two— Embarrassed—not afraid— Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid.
