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The Devil—had he fidelity Would be the best friend— Because he has ability— But Devils cannot mend— Perfidy is the virtue
852 Apology for Her Be rendered by the Bee— Herself, without a Parliament Apology for Me.
XLV DELIGHT becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain.
631 Ourselves were wed one summer—dear… Your Vision—was in June— And when Your little Lifetime fai… I wearied—too—of mine—
136 Have you got a Brook in your litt… Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drin… And shadows tremble so—
641 Size circumscribes—it has no room For petty furniture— The Giant tolerates no Gnat For Ease of Gianture—
Lives he in any other world My faith cannot reply Before it was imperative ’Twas all distinct to me -
The Face we choose to miss - Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away.
LXIII Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair.
To lose thee, sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. Tis true the drought is destitute But, then, I had the dew! The Caspian has its realms of san…
496 As far from pity, as complaint— As cool to speech—as stone— As numb to Revelation As if my Trade were Bone—
They say that ‘time assuages,’— Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of trouble,
57 To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I,
540 I took my Power in my Hand— And went against the World— ’Twas not so much as David—had— But I—was twice as bold—
122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—