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‘Faith’ is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see’— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
XIV SOME things that fly there be,— Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be,—
XXXVII LOVE is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
235 The Court is far away— No Umpire—have I— My Sovereign is offended— To gain his grace—I’d die!
396 There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain— ’Tis Pain’s Successor—When the S… Has suffered all it can—
LXXXIII This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond — Invisible, as Music — But positive, as Sound —
123 Many cross the Rhine In this cup of mine. Sip old Frankfort air From my brown Cigar.
Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
477 No Man can compass a Despair— As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The Traveller proceed—
Image of Light, Adieu - Thanks for the interview - So long– so short – Preceptor of the whole - Coeval Cardinal -
I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
171 Wait till the Majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered Footman Might dare to touch it now!
27 Morns like these—we parted— Noons like these—she rose— Fluttering first—then firmer To her fair repose.
If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spum, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year,
