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After great pain, a formal feeling… The Nerves sit ceremonious, like… The stiff Heart questions was it… And Yesterday, or Centuries befor… The Feet, mechanical, go round—
DEAR March, come in! How glad I am! I looked for you before. Put down your hat— You must have walked—
228 Blazing in Gold and quenching in… Leaping like Leopards to the Sky Then at the feet of the old Horiz… Laying her spotted Face to die
The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,— He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves fro…
1000 The Fingers of the Light Tapped soft upon the Town With “I am great and cannot wait So therefore let me in.”
71 A throe upon the features— A hurry in the breath— An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death”—
LXVII Presentment is that long shadow on… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
462 Why make it doubt — it hurts it so… So sick — to guess — So strong — to know — So brave — upon its little Bed
A Sickness of this World it most… When Best Men die. A Wishfulness their far Condition To occupy. A Chief indifference, as Foreign
XLVII HEART, we will forget him! You and I, to—night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
461 A Wife—at daybreak I shall be— Sunrise—Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I am but a Maid, How short it takes to make a Brid…
351 I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there— I held my spirit to the Glass, To prove it possibler—
951 As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result— Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect—
949 Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the Beetle’s Cellar Under the Clover’s Root,
When Memory is full Put on the perfect Lid - This Morning’s finest syllable Presumptuous Evening said -
