The plague of gold strikes far...

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

Through heaven and earth
...

Through heaven and earth
God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
As color follows light. He overflows
The firmamental walls with deity,
Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
His pity may do so, His angels must,
Whene'er He gives them charges.

A woman's pity sometimes makes...

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

Large, musing eyes, neither jo...

Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.

Folded eyes see brighter color...

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

When the dust of death has cho...

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

O Earth, so full of dreary noi...

O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
O men, with wailing in your voices!
O delved gold, the wader's heap!
O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
God makes a silence through you all,
And 'giveth His beloved, sleep.

I work with patience, which is...

I work with patience, which is almost power.

Nor myrtle--which means chiefl...

Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings.

Tis aye a solemn thing to me

Tis aye a solemn thing to me
To look upon a babe that sleeps--
Wearing in its spirit-deeps
The unrevealed mystery
Of its Adam's taint and woe,
Which, when they revealed lie,
Will not let it slumber so.

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God keeps a niche
In Heav...

God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and denied
That our close kisses should impair their white,--
I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
New Memnons singing in the great God-light.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach u...

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
. . . .
That the wisest word man reaches
Is the humblest he can speak?

A great acacia, with its slend...

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green.

With stammering lips and insuf...

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

'There is no God,' the fooli...

'There is no God,' the foolish saith, But none, 'There is no sorrow.' And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, 'God be pitiful,' Who ne'er said, 'God be praised.'

Men of science, osteologists A...

Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

But love me for love's sake, t...

But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

True knowledge comes only thro...

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

As the moths around a taper,

As the moths around a taper,
As the bees around a rose,
As the gnats around a vapour,
So the spirits group and close
Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

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O Death, O Beyond,
Thou a...

O Death, O Beyond,
Thou art sweet, thou art strange!