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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave… I will forget the light. When you have done pray tell me,
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
920 We can but follow to the Sun— As oft as He go down He leave Ourselves a Sphere behin… ’Tis mostly—following—
798 She staked her Feathers—Gained an… Debated—Rose again— This time—beyond the estimate Of Envy, or of Men—
Publication—is the Auction Of the Mind of Man— Poverty—be justifying For so foul a thing Possibly—but We—would rather
385 Smiling back from Coronation May be Luxury— On the Heads that started with us… Being’s Peasantry—
Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling
10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
527 To put this World down, like a Bu… And walk steady, away, Requires Energy—possibly Agony— ’Tis the Scarlet way
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
825 An Hour is a Sea Between a few, and me— With them would Harbor be—
667 Bloom upon the Mountain—stated— Blameless of a Name— Efflorescence of a Sunset— Reproduced—the same—
260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—
XXIII A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
Dying at my music! Bubble! Bubble! Hold me till the Octave’s run! Quick! Burst the Windows! Ritardando!