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30 Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town?
956 What shall I do when the Summer t… What, when the Rose is ripe— What when the Eggs fly off in Mus… From the Maple Keep?
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
46 I keep my pledge. I was not called— Death did not notice me. I bring my Rose.
I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…
176 I’m the little “Heart’s Ease”! I don’t care for pouting skies! If the Butterfly delay Can I, therefore, stay away?
621 I asked no other thing— No other—was denied— I offered Being—for it— The Mighty Merchant sneered—
Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird —reach it! Curve by Curve —Sweep by Sweep — Round the Steep Air — Danger! What is that to Her?
Love—is that later Thing than Dea… More previous—than Life— Confirms it at its entrance—And Usurps it—of itself— Tastes Death—the first—to hand th…
122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—
LVII EXCEPT the heaven had come so n… So seemed to choose my door, The distance would not haunt me so… I had not hoped before.
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
897 How fortunate the Grave— All Prizes to obtain— Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain.
XXXII HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the wor… And never stops at all,
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading—treading—till it see… That Sense was breaking through— And when they all were seated,