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713 Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous—An Incense Beyond Necessity—
903 I hide myself within my flower, That fading from your Vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me— Almost a loneliness.
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…
492 Civilization—spurns—the Leopard! Was the Leopard—bold? Deserts—never rebuked her Satin— Ethiop—her Gold—
XII I ASKED no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.
I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I’m accustomed to him grown,— He hurts a little, though. I thought if I could only live
60 Like her the Saints retire, In their Chapeaux of fire, Martial as she! Like her the Evenings steal
635 I think the longest Hour of all Is when the Cars have come— And we are waiting for the Coach— It seems as though the Time
LXVII A DEED knocks first at thought, And then it knocks at will. That is the manufacturing spot, And will at home and well.
7 The feet of people walking home With gayer sandals go— The Crocus—til she rises The Vassal of the snow—
I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…
992 The Dust behind I strove to join Unto the Disk before— But Sequence ravelled out of Soun… Like Balls upon a Floor—
There’s been a death in the opposi… As lately as to-day. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway. The neighbors rustle in and out,
25 She slept beneath a tree— Remembered but by me. I touched her Cradle mute— She recognized the foot—
734 If He were living—dare I ask— And how if He be dead— And so around the Words I went— Of meeting them—afraid—