If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.
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A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men,— Of earl and midge The privilege.
818 I could not drink it, Sweet, Till You had tasted first, Though cooler than the Water was The Thoughtfullness of Thirst.
147 Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast— Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest!
688 “Speech”—is a prank of Parliament… “Tears”—is a trick of the nerve— But the Heart with the heaviest f… Doesn't—always—move—
546 To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it— Block it up With Other—and 'twill yawn the mo…
XII I ASKED no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.
13 Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand
XVII WHEN night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ’s time to smooth the hair
414 ’Twas like a Maelstrom, with a no… That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony
Not “Revelation”—'tis—that waits, But our unfurnished eyes—
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
57 To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I,
866 Fame is the tine that Scholars le… Upon their Setting Names— The Iris not of Occident That disappears as comes—
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
184 A transport one cannot contain May yet a transport be— Though God forbid it lift the lid… Unto its Ecstasy!