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To lose thee, sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. Tis true the drought is destitute But, then, I had the dew! The Caspian has its realms of san…
XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
771 None can experience sting Who Bounty—have not known— The fact of Famine—could not be Except for Fact of Corn—
456 So well that I can live without— I love thee—then How well is that… As well as Jesus? Prove it me
136 Have you got a Brook in your litt… Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drin… And shadows tremble so—
921 If it had no pencil Would it try mine— Worn—now—and dull—sweet, Writing much to thee.
169 In Ebon Box, when years have flow… To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there!
863 That Distance was between Us That is not of Mile or Main— The Will it is that situates— Equator—never can—
932 My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word— The Stars that stated come to Tow… Esteemed Me never rude
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on— How condescending to descend And be of Buttercups the friend
321 Of all the Sounds despatched abro… There’s not a Charge to me Like that old measure in the Boug… That phraseless Melody—
17 Baffled for just a day or two— Embarrassed—not afraid— Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid.
626 Only God—detect the Sorrow— Only God— The Jehovahs—are no Babblers— Unto God—
869 Because the Bee may blameless hum For Thee a Bee do I become List even unto Me. Because the Flowers unafraid
796 Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy— For Greatness, that is ill at eas… In minor Company—