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Are Friends Delight or Pain? Could Bounty but remain Riches were good - But if they only stay Ampler to fly away
Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost
Part One: Life XXXV I CAN wade grief, Whole pools of it,— I ’m used to that.
Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought A further force of life
A Death blow is a Life blow to S… Who till they died, did not alive… Who had they lived, had died but w… They died, Vitality begun.
The Beggar at the Door for Fame Were easily supplied But Bread is that Diviner thing Disclosed to be denied
132 I bring an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching Next to mine, And summon them to drink;
497 He strained my faith— Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust— Did it then—yield?
I never saw a moor; I never saw the sea, Yet know I how the heather looks And what a billow be. I never spoke with God,
My Garden’—like the Beach’— Denotes there be’—a Sea’— That’s Summer’— Such as These’—the Pearls She fetches’—such as Me
839 Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation
440 ’Tis customary as we part A trinket—to confer— It helps to stimulate the faith When Lovers be afar—
XCVI MY life closed twice before its c… It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me,
Because I could not stop for Deat… He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselv… And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
Growth of Man—like Growth of Nat… Gravitates within— Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it— Bit it stir—alone— Each—its difficult Ideal