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127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
Said Death to Passion ‘Give of thine an Acre unto me.’ Said Passion, through contracting… ‘A Thousand Times Thee Nay.’ Bore Death from Passion
598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.
41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses
IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
239 “Heaven”—is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree— Provided it do hopeless—hang— That—"He aven" is—to Me!
As from the earth the light Ballo… Asks nothing but release - Ascension that for which it was, Its soaring Residence. The spirit looks upon the Dust
XXIV WHETHER my bark went down at se… Whether she met with gales, Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails;
192 Poor little Heart! Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care! Proud little Heart!
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plant… At Evening, it is not At Morning, in a Truffled Hut It stop opon a Spot As if it tarried always
97 The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by, Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy.
819 All I may, if small, Do it not display Larger for the Totalness— ’Tis Economy
446 I showed her Heights she never sa… “Would’st Climb,” I said? She said—"Not so"— “With me—” I said—With me?
240 Ah, Moon—and Star! You are very far— But were no one Farther than you—
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
