Poems
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What I Live For
I Live for those who love me, / Whose hearts are kind and true, / For heaven that smiles above me, … -
What I see not, I better see —
What I see not, I better see — / Through Faith — my Hazel Eye / Has periods of shutting — … -
What if I say I shall not wait!
What if I say I shall not wait! / What if I burst the fleshly Gate — / And pass escaped — to thee! … -
What Inn is this
What Inn is this / Where for the night / Peculiar Traveller comes? … -
What is — "Paradise" —
What is — "Paradise" — / Who live there — / Are they "Farmers" — … -
What is Prayer?
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, / Uttered or unexpressed— / The motion of a hidden fire … -
What is the Grass?
From “The Song of Myself” / A CHILD said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; / How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. … -
What Mr. Robinson Thinks
From “The Biglow Papers,” No. III. / GUVENER B. 1 is a sensible man; / He stays to his home an’ looks arter his folks; … -
What My Lover Said
By the merest chance, in the twilight gloom, / In the orchard path he met me; / In the tall, wet grass, with its faint perfume, … -
What mystery pervades a well!
What mystery pervades a well! / That water lives so far — / A neighbor from another world …
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