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500 Within my Garden, rides a Bird Upon a single Wheel— Whose spokes a dizzy Music make As ’twere a travelling Mill—
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
XXII I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity.
An Antiquated Tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is di… To venerable Birds Whose Corporation Coat
708 I sometimes drop it, for a Quick— The Thought to be alive— Anonymous Delight to know— And Madder—to conceive—
576 I prayed, at first, a little Girl… Because they told me to— But stopped, when qualified to gue… How prayer would feel—to me—
Part One: Life XXXV I CAN wade grief, Whole pools of it,— I ’m used to that.
XLIV THE show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be.
277 What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate— And pass escaped—to thee! What if I file this Mortal—off—
91 So bashful when I spied her! So pretty—so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find—
307 The One who could repeat the Summ… Were greater than itself—though H… Minutest of Mankind should be— And He—could reproduce the Sun—
If ever the lid gets off my head And lets the brain away The fellow will go where he belong… Without a hint from me, And the world– if the world be lo…
356 The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days— Until the Coronation came— And then—'twas Otherwise—
947 Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause? “A Soul has gone to Heaven” I’m answered in a lonesome tone— Is Heaven then a Prison?
A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dew