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I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes— I wonder if It weighs like Mine— Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long—
XXV Wild nights—Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury!
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—
41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses
140 An altered look about the hills— A Tyrian light the village fills— A wider sunrise in the morn— A deeper twilight on the lawn—
550 I cross till I am weary A Mountain—in my mind— More Mountains—then a Sea— More Seas—And then
912 Peace is a fiction of our Faith— The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight.
928 The Heart has narrow Banks It measures like the Sea In mighty—unremitting Bass And Blue Monotony
913 And this of all my Hopes This, is the silent end Bountiful colored, my Morning ros… Early and sere, its end
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass
592 What care the Dead, for Chanticle… What care the Dead for Day? ’Tis late your Sunrise vex their… And Purple Ribaldry—of Morning
Water makes many Beds For those averse to sleep - Its awful chamber open stands - Its Curtains blandly sweep - Abhorrent is the Rest
897 How fortunate the Grave— All Prizes to obtain— Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain.
763 He told a homely tale And spotted it with tears— Upon his infant face was set The Cicatrice of years—
357 God is a distant—stately Lover— Woos, as He states us—by His Son… Verily, a Vicarious Courtship— “Miles”, and “Priscilla”, were su…