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673 The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon the face of Noon…
To make a prairie it takes a clove… One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
268 Me, change! Me, alter! Then I will, when on the Everlast… A Smaller Purple grows— At sunset, or a lesser glow
Glory is that bright tragic thing That for an instant Means Dominion - Warms some poor name That never felt the Sun,
XLVII IS Heaven a physician? They say that He can heal; But medicine posthumous Is unavailable.
The Sun kept setting—setting—stil… No Hue of Afternoon— Upon the Village I perceived From House to House ’twas Noon— The Dusk kept dropping—dropping—s…
The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ‘T were easier for you To put the water back
534 We see—Comparatively— The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided—Yesterday—
831 Dying! To be afraid of thee One must to thine Artillery Have left exposed a Friend— Than thine old Arrow is a Shot
271 A solemn thing—it was—I said— A woman—white—to be— And wear—if God should count me f… Her blameless mystery—
Part One: Life LIII GOD gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv…
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,
553 One Crucifixion is recorded’—only… How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics’— Or History’—
493 The World—stands—solemner—to me— Since I was wed—to Him— A modesty befits the soul That bears another’s—name—
XXV BELSHAZZAR had a letter,— He never had but one; Belshazzar’s correspondent Concluded and begun