If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry....

289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,

997 Crumbling is not an instant’s Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation’s processes Are organized Decays.

454 It was given to me by the Gods— When I was a little Girl— They given us Presents most—you k… When we are new—and small.

244 It is easy to work when the soul i… But when the soul is in pain— The hearing him put his playthings… Makes work difficult—then—

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,

496 As far from pity, as complaint— As cool to speech—as stone— As numb to Revelation As if my Trade were Bone—

To see her is a Picture— To hear her is a Tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To know her not—Affliction—

966 All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One— All forsook, for just a Stranger’… New Accompanying—

An Antiquated Tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is di… To venerable Birds Whose Corporation Coat

339 I tend my flowers for thee— Bright Absentee! My Fuchsia’s Coral Seams Rip—while the Sower—dreams—

626 Only God—detect the Sorrow— Only God— The Jehovahs—are no Babblers— Unto God—

653 Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens—upon—