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577 If I may have it, when it’s dead, I’ll be contented—so— If just as soon as Breath is out It shall belong to me—
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
A Word dropped careless on a Page May stimulate an eye When folded in perpetual seam The Wrinkled Maker lie Infection in the sentence breeds
439 Undue Significance a starving man… To Food— Far off—He sighs—and therefore—Ho… And therefore—Good—
437 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them. They fling their Speech
560 It knew no lapse, nor Diminuation… But large—serene— Burned on—until through Dissoluti… It failed from Men—
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
So much of Heaven has gone from E… That there must be a Heaven If only to enclose the Saints To Affidavit given. The Missionary to the Mole
That only lasts an hour How much '— how little '— is Within our power
Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost
770 I lived on Dread— To Those who know The Stimulus there is In Danger—Other impetus
569 I reckon—when I count it all— First—Poets—Then the Sun— Then Summer—Then the Heaven of G… And then—the List is done—
977 Besides this May We know There is Another— How fair
530 You cannot put a Fire out— A Thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a Fan— Upon the slowest Night—
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…