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273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—
I SHOULD have been too glad, I… Too lifted for the scant degree Of life’s penurious round; My little circuit would have shame… This new circumference, have blame…
My River runs to thee’— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River wait reply’— Oh Sea’—look graciously’— I’ll fetch thee Brooks
120 If this is “fading” Oh let me immediately “fade”! If this is “dying” Bury me, in such a shroud of red!
951 As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result— Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect—
534 We see—Comparatively— The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided—Yesterday—
783 The Birds begun at Four o’clock— Their period for Dawn— A Music numerous as space— But neighboring as Noon—
To my quick ear the leaves conferr… The bushes they were bells; I could not find a privacy From Nature’s sentinels. In cave if I presumed to hide,
14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There’s only one recorded, But both belong to me.
343 My Reward for Being, was This. My premium—My Bliss— An Admiralty, less— A Sceptre—penniless—
504 You know that Portrait in the Moo… So tell me who ’tis like— The very Brow—the stooping eyes— A fog for—Say—Whose Sake?
930 There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed— A Summer briefer than the first But tenderer indeed
699 The Judge is like the Owl— I’ve heard my Father tell— And Owls do build in Oaks— So here’s an Amber Sill—
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
42 A Day! Help! Help! Another Day! Your prayers, oh Passer by! From such a common ball as this Might date a Victory!