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10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
XI MUCH madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority
521 Endow the Living—with the Tears— You squander on the Dead, And They were Men and Women—now, Around Your Fireside—
His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.
573 The Test of Love—is Death— Our Lord—"so loved"—it saith— What Largest Lover—hath Another—doth—
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
659 That first Day, when you praised… And said that I was strong— And could be mighty, if I liked— That Day—the Days among—
195 For this—accepted Breath— Through it—compete with Death— The fellow cannot touch this Crow… By it—my title take—
855 To own the Art within the Soul The Soul to entertain With Silence as a Company And Festival maintain
158 Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow?
There comes a warning like a spy A shorter breath of Day A stealing that is not a stealth And Summers are away
527 To put this World down, like a Bu… And walk steady, away, Requires Energy—possibly Agony— ’Tis the Scarlet way
102 Great Caesar! Condescend The Daisy, to receive, Gathered by Cato’s Daughter, With your majestic leave!
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
995 This was in the White of the Year… That—was in the Green— Drifts were as difficult then to t… As Daisies now to be seen—