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348 I dreaded that first Robin, so, But He is mastered, now, I’m accustomed to Him grown, He hurts a little, though—
The Sea said 'Come’ to the Brook… The Brook said 'Let me grow’ - The Sea said 'Then you will be a… I want a Brook - Come now’! The Sea said 'Go’ to the Sea -
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place - Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face - All of Evening softly lit
XXXIV WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind.
His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.
28 So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today— So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away—
998 Best Things dwell out of Sight The Pearl—the Just—Our Thought. Most shun the Public Air Legitimate, and Rare—
God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv… My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the fea…
849 The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
37 Before the ice is in the pools— Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow—
313 I should have been too glad, I se… Too lifted—for the scant degree Of Life’s penurious Round— My little Circuit would have sham…
A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dew
827 The Only News I know Is Bulletins all Day From Immortality. The Only Shows I see—