No matter—now—Sweet—
But when I’m Earl—
Won’t you wish you’d spoken
To that dull Girl?
Trivial a Word—just—

22
All these my banners be.
I sow my pageantry
In May—
It rises train by train—

It stole along so stealthy
Suspicion it was done
Was dim as to the wealthy
Beginning not to own -

911
Too little way the House must lie
From every Human Heart
That holds in undisputed Lease
A white inhabitant—

73
Who never lost, are unprepared
A Coronet to find!
Who never thirsted
Flagons, and Cooling Tamarind!

61
Papa above!
Regard a Mouse
O’erpowered by the Cat!
Reserve within thy kingdom

890
From Us She wandered now a Year,
Her tarrying, unknown,
If Wilderness prevent her feet
Or that Ethereal Zone

522
Had I presumed to hope—
The loss had been to Me
A Value—for the Greatness’ Sake—
As Giants—gone away—

673
The Love a Life can show Below
Is but a filament, I know,
Of that diviner thing
That faints upon the face of Noon

THERE’S a certain slant of ligh
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.
Heavenly hurt it gives us;