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5 I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing— The spring decoys. And as the summer nears—
You said that I “was Great”'—one… Then “Great” it be’—if that pleas… Or Small’—or any size at all’— Nay’—I’m the size suit Thee’— Tall’—like the Stag’—would that?
892 Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstan… ’Tis well the name and age
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes— I wonder if It weighs like Mine— Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long—
Escape is such a thankful Word I often in the Night Consider it unto myself No spectacle in sight Escape - it is the Basket
406 Some’—Work for Immortality’— The Chiefer part, for Time’— He’—Compensates’—immediately’— The former’—Checks’—on Fame’—
‘Faithful to the end’ Amended From the Heavenly Clause - Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors - ‘Crowns of Life’ are servile Priz…
826 Love reckons by itself—alone— “As large as I”—relate the Sun To One who never felt it blaze— Itself is all the like it has—
151 Mute thy Coronation— Meek my Vive le roi, Fold a tiny courtier In thine Ermine, Sir,
44 If she had been the Mistletoe And I had been the Rose— How gay upon your table My velvet life to close—
229 A Burdock—clawed my Gown— Not Burdock’s—blame— But mine— Who went too near
307 The One who could repeat the Summ… Were greater than itself—though H… Minutest of Mankind should be— And He—could reproduce the Sun—
504 You know that Portrait in the Moo… So tell me who ’tis like— The very Brow—the stooping eyes— A fog for—Say—Whose Sake?
LXI EACH life converges to some cent… Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal,
384 No Rack can torture me— My Soul—at Liberty— Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One—