Truth - is as old as God - ......

Truth - is as old as God - ...

It is true that the unknown is...

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

Life is so rotatory that the w...

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

I SEE thee better in the dark,...

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner's lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee bestЂ' Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

The bustle in a house The morn...

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

There's a certain slant of lig...

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

I lost a world the other day. ...

I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!

Banish Air from Air
Divi...

Banish Air from Air
Divide Light if you dare

The Soul unto itself
Is a...

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, -
Or the most agonizing Spy -
An Enemy - could send -

My only sketch, profile, of He...

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.

Till the first friend dies, we...

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Not to discover weakness is Th...

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

Nods from the Gilded pointers ...

Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -

If I shouldn't be alive
...

If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.

No Life can pompless pass away...

No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here -

I took one Draught of Life - I...

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

She rose to his requirement, d...

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Dreams are the subtle Dower

Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door.

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The Supernatural is only the N...

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry

Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.

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