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147 Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast— Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest!
848 Just as He spoke it from his Hand… This Edifice remain— A Turret more, a Turret less Dishonor his Design—
Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not found - Returns us not, but after time
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
‘Heavenly Father’ - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us - seems to us
The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin,—so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the b…
Epigram THIS is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery— Others—whose instant’s wanting— Would be Eternity—
778 This that would greet—an hour ago— Is quaintest Distance—now— Had it a Guest from Paradise— Nor glow, would it, nor bow—
373 I’m saying every day “If I should be a Queen, tomorrow… I’d do this way— And so I deck, a little,
866 Fame is the tine that Scholars le… Upon their Setting Names— The Iris not of Occident That disappears as comes—
604 Unto my Books—so good to turn— Far ends of tired Days— It half endears the Abstinence— And Pain—is missed—in Praise—
298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key—
93 Went up a year this evening! I recollect it well! Amid no bells nor bravoes The bystanders will tell!
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold