Good night! which put the candle o… A jealous zephyr, not a doubt. Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick The angels labored diligent;

It’s like the light,— A fashionless delight It’s like the bee,— A dateless melody. It’s like the woods,

775 If Blame be my side’—forfeit Me’— But doom me not to forfeit Thee’— To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief’—and Hous…

787 Such is the Force of Happiness— The Least—can lift a Ton Assisted by its stimulus— Who Misery—sustain—

364 The Morning after Woe— ’Tis frequently the Way— Surpasses all that rose before— For utter Jubilee—

344 ’Twas the old’—road’—through pain’… That unfrequented’—one’— With many a turn’—and thorn’— That stops’—at Heaven’—

342 It will be Summer’—eventually. Ladies’—with parasols’— Sauntering Gentlemen’—with Canes’… And little Girls’—with Dolls’—

277 What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate— And pass escaped—to thee! What if I file this Mortal—off—

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading—treading—till it see… That Sense was breaking through— And when they all were seated,

230 We’—Bee and I’—live by the quaffi… ’Tisn’t all Hock’—with us’— Life has its Ale’— But it’s many a lay of the Dim Bu…

I MEANT to have but modest need… Such as content, and heaven; Within my income these could lie, And life and I keep even. But since the last included both,

531 We dream’—it is good we are dreami… It would hurt us’—were we awake’— But since it is playing’—kill us, And we are playing’—shriek’—

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—