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XXII I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity.
873 Ribbons of the Year— Multitude Brocade— Worn to Nature’s Party once Then, as flung aside
641 Size circumscribes—it has no room For petty furniture— The Giant tolerates no Gnat For Ease of Gianture—
203 He forgot—and I—remembered— ’Twas an everyday affair— Long ago as Christ and Peter— “Warmed them” at the “Temple fire…
Our lives are Swiss— So still—so Cool— Till some odd afternoon The Alps neglect their Curtains And we look farther on!
768 When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West— Roughest Air—was good—
623 It was too late for Man— But early, yet, for God— Creation—impotent to help— But Prayer—remained—Our Side—
874 They won’t frown always—some sweet… When I forget to tease— They’ll recollect how cold I look… And how I just said “Please.”
118 My friend attacks my friend! Oh Battle picturesque! Then I turn Soldier too, And he turns Satirist!
104 Where I have lost, I softer tread… I sow sweet flower from garden bed… I pause above that vanished head And mourn.
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
939 What I see not, I better see— Through Faith—my Hazel Eye Has periods of shutting— But, No lid has Memory—
230 We—Bee and I—live by the quaffing… ’Tisn’t all Hock—with us— Life has its Ale— But it’s many a lay of the Dim Bu…
The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly -
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,- The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty Her message is committed