The swinging mill bell changed its rate To tolling like the count of fate, And though at that the tardy ran, One failed to make the closing gate. There was a law of God or man

You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could hold To the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff.

All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separa… That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the… Was the lamp tilted near them in his han…

The last step taken found your heft Decidedly upon the left. One more would throw you on the right. Another still—you see your plight. You call this thinking, but it’s walking…

The battle rent a cobweb diamond—strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird’s… Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so h… And still the bird revisited her young.

To start the world of old We had one age of gold Not labored out of mines, And some say there are signs The second such has come,

The danger not an inch outside Behind the porthole’s slab of glass And double ring of fitted brass I trust feels properly defied.

Having a wheel and four legs of its own Has never availed the cumbersome grindst… To get it anywhere that I can see. These hands have helped it go, and even… Not all the motion, though, they ever le…

The little old house was out with a litt… In front at the edge of the road where t… A roadside stand that too pathetically p… It would not be fair to say for a dole o… But for some of the money, the cash, who…

He is said to have been the last Red ma… In Action. And the Miller is said to h… If you like to call such a sound a laugh… But he gave no one else a laugher’s lice… For he turned suddenly grave as if to sa…

The great Overdog That heavenly beast With a star in one eye Gives a leap in the east. He dances upright

To think to know the country and now kno… The hillside on the day the sun lets go Ten million silver lizards out of snow! As often as I’ve seen it done before I can’t pretend to tell the way it’s don…

NOW that they’ve got it settled whose… I’m going to tell them something they wo… They’ve got it settled wrong, and I can… Flattered I must be to have two towns f… To make a present of me to each other.