PoemsLittle, Brown,, 1890 - 152 páginas |
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afraid angels anguish Auto-da-fé bashful BELSHAZZAR birds bliss bobolink breast breath breezes butterflies Calvary chrysoprase Circassian clover daffodil death defeat Dickinson door ajar Doth dropped dying Emily Emily Dickinson endless summer eternity eyes face feather feet fingers flower gallant grass so little greedy hand HARVARD COLLEGE heaven hills hour immortal infinite realms keep the Sabbath land Lest little brook LONELY HOUSE look mist morning never night noon orchis pain Paradise passed pearl poems pretty purple PURPLE CLOVER rhododendron robin rose sails Sappho scooped sleep smiling snow soft softly Sophocles soul star stir summer summer's day sunrise sunshine SURRENDER sweet Tankard tell thee thing THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON thou thought to-day tune TWAS Unmoved unsuspecting Van Diemen's land verses victory wear Wherefore William Blake wind woman XVII XVIII Yellow Sea
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Página 126 - I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather* looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
Página 138 - Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility We passed the School, where Children...
Página 119 - I died for Beauty — but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room — He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
Página 13 - Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear!
Página 34 - Landlords' turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door When Butterflies - renounce their 'drams' I shall but drink the more! Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats And Saints - to windows run To see the little...
Página 130 - That others could exist While she must finish quite, A jealousy for her arose So nearly infinite. We waited while she passed; It was a narrow time, Too jostled were our souls to speak, At length the notice came.
Página 55 - A newer Sevres pleases Old Ones crack I could not die - with You For One must wait To shut the Other's Gaze down You - could not And I - Could I stand by And see You - freeze Without my Right of Frost Death's privilege? Nor could I rise - with You Because Your Face Would put out Jesus...
Página 113 - Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection — Rafter of satin, And Roof of stone.
Página 106 - There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons — That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes — Heavenly Hurt, it gives us — We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are...
Página 18 - If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.