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236 If He dissolve – then – there is… Eclipse – at Midnight – It was dark – before – Sunset – at Easter –
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise
I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower,
884 As Everywhere of Silver With Ropes of Sand To keep it from effacing The Track called Land.
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone— When One has failed to stop them— Is Human—but Divine
XLVII HEART, we will forget him! You and I, to—night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell… Tell him the page I didn’t write; Tell him I only said the syntax, And left the verb and the pronoun… Tell him just how the fingers hurr…
XII I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
512 The Soul has Bandaged moments— When too appalled to stir— She feels some ghastly Fright com… And stop to look at her—
168 If the foolish, call them “flowers… Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants “Classify” them It is just as well!
286 That after Horror — that ’twas us… That passed the mouldering Pier — Just as the Granite Crumb let go… Our Savior, by a Hair —
To my quick ear the leaves conferr… The bushes they were bells; I could not find a privacy From Nature’s sentinels. In cave if I presumed to hide,
270 One Life of so much Consequence! Yet I—for it—would pay— My Soul’s entire income— In ceaseless—salary—
514 Her smile was shaped like other sm… The Dimples ran along— And still it hurt you, as some Bi… Did hoist herself, to sing,
223 I Came to buy a smile—today— But just a single smile— The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well—