662 Embarrassment of one another And God Is Revelation’s limit, Aloud

121 As Watchers hang upon the East, As Beggars revel at a feast By savory Fancy spread— As brooks in deserts babble sweet

74 A Lady red—amid the Hill Her annual secret keeps! A Lady white, within the Field In placid Lily sleeps!

117 In rags mysterious as these The shining Courtiers go— Veiling the purple, and the plumes… Veiling the ermine so.

979 This Merit hath the worst— It cannot be again— When Fate hath taunted last And thrown Her furthest Stone—

353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—

952 A Man may make a Remark— In itself—a quiet thing That may furnish the Fuse unto a… In dormant nature—lain—

213 Did the Harebell loose her girdle To the lover Bee Would the Bee the Harebell hallow Much as formerly?

468 The Manner of its Death When Certain it must die— ’Tis deemed a privilege to choose— ’Twas Major Andre’s Way—

Part One: Life LIII GOD gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv…

71 A throe upon the features— A hurry in the breath— An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death”—

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,

252 I can wade Grief— Whole Pools of it— I’m used to that— But the least push of Joy