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194 On this long storm the Rainbow ro… On this late Morn—the Sun— The clouds—like listless Elephant… Horizons—straggled down—
136 Have you got a Brook in your litt… Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drin… And shadows tremble so—
LXXXVIII HEAVEN is what I cannot reach! The apple on the tree, Provided it do hopeless hang, That “heaven” is, to me.
199 I’m “wife”'—I’ve finished that’— That other state’— I’m Czar’—I’m “Woman” now’— It’s safer so’—
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…
543 I fear a Man of frugal Speech— I fear a Silent Man— Haranguer—I can overtake— Or Babbler—entertain—
799 Despair’s advantage is achieved By suffering—Despair— To be assisted of Reverse One must Reverse have bore—
XXIX THE nearest dream recedes, unreal… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school—boy
467 We do not play on Graves— Because there isn’t Room— Besides—it isn’t even—it slants And People come—
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered - Safer not to know - Miseries of conjecture
553 One Crucifixion is recorded’—only… How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics’— Or History’—
XVII WHEN night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ’s time to smooth the hair
990 Not all die early, dying young— Maturity of Fate Is consummated equally In Ages, or a Night—
160 Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with E… When breath blew back,