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Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
768 When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West— Roughest Air—was good—
He preached upon ‘Breadth’ till i… The Broad are too broad to define And of ‘Truth’ until it proclaime… The Truth never flaunted a Sign— Simplicity fled from his counterfe…
167 To learn the Transport by the Pai… As Blind Men learn the sun! To die of thirst—suspecting That Brooks in Meadows run!
Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
VIII A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
54 If I should die, And you should live— And time should gurgle on— And morn should beam—
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
496 As far from pity, as complaint— As cool to speech—as stone— As numb to Revelation As if my Trade were Bone—
980 Purple—is fashionable twice— This season of the year, And when a soul perceives itself To be an Emperor.
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,
I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down. And then they grew so jolly
781 To wait an Hour—is long— If Love be just beyond— To wait Eternity—is short— If Love reward the end—
862 Light is sufficient to itself— If Others want to see It can be had on Window Panes Some Hours in the Day.
376 Of Course—I prayed— And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird—had stamped her foot—