867 Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place— Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace—

XLVII IS Heaven a physician? They say that He can heal; But medicine posthumous Is unavailable.

586 We talked as Girls do— Fond, and late— We speculated fair, on every subje… Of ours, none affair—

113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—

838 Impossibility, like Wine Exhilarates the Man Who tastes it; Possibility Is flavorless—Combine

15 The Guest is gold and crimson— An Opal guest and gray— Of Ermine is his doublet— His Capuchin gay—

44 If she had been the Mistletoe And I had been the Rose— How gay upon your table My velvet life to close—

HE preached upon “breadth” till i… The broad are too broad to define: And of “truth” until it proclaimed… The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfe…

86 South Winds jostle them— Bumblebees come— Hover—hesitate— Dri nk, and are gone—

385 Smiling back from Coronation May be Luxury— On the Heads that started with us… Being’s Peasantry—

The day came slow, till five o’clo… Then sprang before the hills, Like hindered rubies, or the light… A sudden musket spills. The purple could not keep the east…

XXXVII LOVE is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.

This quiet dust was gentlemen and… And lads and girls; Was laughter and ability and sighi… And frocks and curls; This passive place a summer’s nimb…