Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue… The letting go A Presence—for an Expectation— Not now— The putting out of Eyes—

412 I read my sentence’—steadily’— Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In its extremest clause’—

906 The Admirations’—and Contempts’—o… Show justest’—through an Open Tom… The Dying’—as it were a Height Reorganizes Estimate

If I read a book and it makes my…

In snow thou comest - Thou shalt go with the resuming gr… The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee’s advancing sound. In fear thou comest -

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—

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,

“Sic transit gloria mundi,” “How doth the busy bee,” “Dum vivimus vivamus,” I stay mine enemy! Oh “veni, vidi, vici!”

726 We thirst at first’—'tis Nature’s… And later’—when we die’— A little Water supplicate’— Of fingers going by’—

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,

THE BAT is dun with wrinkled wi… Like fallow article, And not a song pervades his lips, Or none perceptible. His small umbrella, quaintly halve…

168 If the foolish, call them “flowers… Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants “Classify” them It is just as well!

They say that ‘time assuages,’— Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of trouble,