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470 I am alive—I guess— The Branches on my Hand Are full of Morning Glory— And at my finger’s end—
176 I’m the little “Heart’s Ease”! I don’t care for pouting skies! If the Butterfly delay Can I, therefore, stay away?
This is the land the sunset washes… These are the banks of the Yellow… Where it rose, or whither it rushe… These are the western mystery! Night after night her purple traff…
710 The Sunrise runs for Both— The East—Her Purple Troth Keeps with the Hill— The Noon unwinds Her Blue
114 Good night, because we must, How intricate the dust! I would go, to know! Oh incognito!
910 Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By—Paradox—the Mind itself— Presuming it to lead
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but not The second time is set.
726 We thirst at first—’tis Nature’s… And later—when we die— A little Water supplicate— Of fingers going by—
260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—
896 Of Silken Speech and Specious Sh… A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually
549 That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived—Enough—
464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—
759 He fought like those Who’ve nough… Bestowed Himself to Balls As One who for a further Life Had not a further Use—
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
187 How many times these low feet stag… Only the soldered mouth can tell— Try—can you stir the awful rivet— Try—can you lift the hasps of stee…