I breathed enough to learn the tri… And now, removed from air, I simulate the breath so well, That one, to be quite sure The lungs are stirless, must desce…

184 A transport one cannot contain May yet a transport be— Though God forbid it lift the lid… Unto its Ecstasy!

702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—

204 A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky—

391 A Visitor in Marl— Who influences Flowers— Till they are orderly as Busts— And Elegant—as Glass—

Part One: Life LIII GOD gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv…

604 Unto my Books—so good to turn— Far ends of tired Days— It half endears the Abstinence— And Pain—is missed—in Praise—

XLV DELIGHT becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain.

642 Me from Myself — to banish — Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart —

218 Is it true, dear Sue? Are there two? I shouldn’t like to come For fear of joggling Him!

XII I ASKED no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.

600 It troubled me as once I was— For I was once a Child— Concluding how an Atom—fell— And yet the Heavens—held—

1000 The Fingers of the Light Tapped soft upon the Town With “I am great and cannot wait So therefore let me in.”