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837 How well I knew Her not Whom not to know has been A Bounty in prospective, now Next Door to mine the Pain.
586 We talked as Girls do— Fond, and late— We speculated fair, on every subje… Of ours, none affair—
298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key—
Pain—has an Element of Blank— It cannot recollect When it begun—or if there were A time when it was not— It has no Future—but itself—
How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure
492 Civilization—spurns—the Leopard! Was the Leopard—bold? Deserts—never rebuked her Satin— Ethiop—her Gold—
120 If this is “fading” Oh let me immediately “fade”! If this is “dying” Bury me, in such a shroud of red!
363 I went to thank Her— But She Slept— Her Bed—a funneled Stone— With Nosegays at the Head and Fo…
964 “Unto Me?” I do not know you— Where may be your House? “I am Jesus—Late of Judea— Now—of Paradise”—
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
There cam a Wind like a Bugle - It quivered through the Grass And a Green Chill upon the Heat So ominous did pass We barred the Windows and the Doo…
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! Were I with thee, Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile the winds
641 Size circumscribes—it has no room For petty furniture— The Giant tolerates no Gnat For Ease of Gianture—
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take
My River runs to thee’— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River wait reply’— Oh Sea’—look graciously’— I’ll fetch thee Brooks