I cannot live with You— It would be Life— And Life is over there— Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to—

681 Soil of Flint, if steady tilled— Will refund by Hand— Seed of Palm, by Libyan Sun Fructified in Sand—

438 Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt?

567 He gave away his Life— To Us—Gigantic Sum— A trifle—in his own esteem— But magnified—by Fame—

HE preached upon “breadth” till i… The broad are too broad to define: And of “truth” until it proclaimed… The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfe…

907 Till Death’—is narrow Loving’— The scantest Heart extant Will hold you till your privilege Of Finiteness’—be spent’—

They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…

29 If those I loved were lost The Crier’s voice would tell me— If those I loved were found The bells of Ghent would ring—

127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!

746 Never for Society He shall seek in vain— Who His own acquaintance Cultivate—Of Men

217 Savior! I’ve no one else to tell— And so I trouble thee. I am the one forgot thee so— Dost thou remember me?

43 Could live—did live— Could die—did die— Could smile upon the whole Through faith in one he met not,

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,

I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down. And then they grew so jolly

Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie The Day that a Companion came Or was obliged to die