37 Before the ice is in the pools— Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow—

The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on— How condescending to descend And be of Buttercups the friend

651 So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate— Would a Smile’s minute bestowing

896 Of Silken Speech and Specious Sh… A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually

778 This that would greet—an hour ago— Is quaintest Distance—now— Had it a Guest from Paradise— Nor glow, would it, nor bow—

She could not live upon the Past The Present did not know her And so she sought this sweet at la… And nature gently owned her The mother that has not a knell

542 I had no Cause to be awake— My Best—was gone to sleep— And Morn a new politeness took— And failed to wake them up—

411 The Color of the Grave is Green— The Outer Grave—I mean— You would not know it from the Fi… Except it own a Stone—

179 If I could bribe them by a Rose I’d bring them every flower that g… From Amherst to Cashmere! I would not stop for night, or sto…

116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.

802 Time feels so vast that were it no… For an Eternity— I fear me this Circumference Engross my Finity—

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me. And frigates in the upper floor

831 Dying! To be afraid of thee One must to thine Artillery Have left exposed a Friend— Than thine old Arrow is a Shot

410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—