There came a Wind like a Bugle --
It quivered through the Grass
And a Green Chill upon the Heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the Windows and the Doors
As from an ...
He ate and drank the precious Words --
His Spirit grew robust --
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was Dust --
He danced along the dingy Days
An...
Who has not found the Heaven -- below
Will fail of it above --
For Angels rent the House next ours,
Wherever we remove --
...
Look back on Time, with kindly eyes --
He doubtless did his best --
How softly sinks that trembling sun
In Human Nature's West --
...
I have no Life but this --
To lead it here --
Nor any Death -- but lest
Dispelled from there --
Nor tie to Earth to come --
Nor Action new --
Except throug...
She laid her docile Crescent down
And this confiding Stone
Still states to Dates that have forgot
The News that she is gone --
So constant to its stolid trust,
The...
In this short Life
That only lasts an hour
How much -- how little -- is
Within our power
...
A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will.
That is the manufacturing spot
And Will at Home and Well.
It then goes out an Act,
Or is entombed so ...
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
...
He preached upon 'Breadth' till it argued him narrow --
The Broad are too broad to define
And of 'Truth' until it proclaimed him a Liar --
The Truth never flaunted a Sign --
...
Too few the mornings be,
Too scant the nigthts.
No lodging can be had
For the delights
That come to earth to stay,
But no apartment find
And ride away.
...
Remembrance has a Rear and Front --
'Tis something like a House --
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse.
Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid...
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb suprise.
As Lightning to the Children eased
Wi...
The Sky is low -- the Clouds are mean.
A Travelling Flake of Snow
Across a Barn or through a Rut
Debates if it will go --
A Narrow Wind complains all Day
How som...
Except the smaller size
No lives are round --
These -- hurry to a sphere
And show and end --
The larger -- slower grow
And later hang --
The Summers of Hesperi...
