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I've seen a Dying Eye

I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed, …

Emily Dickinson
The Ideal (Botta)

"How the shadow the Ideal throws before it
darkens the actual." -- Zanoni
"La vie est un sommeil, l'amour en est le rêve;." …

Anne Lynch Botta
The Ideal found

I've met thee, whom I dared not hope to meet,
Save in the enchanted land of my day-dreams:
Yes, in this common world, this waking state, …

Anne Lynch Botta
Ideals are the Fairly Oil

Ideals are the Fairly Oil
With which we help the Wheel
But when the Vital Axle turns …
If all the griefs I am to have

If all the griefs I am to have
Would only come today,
I am so happy I believe …
If any sink, assure that this, now standing —

If any sink, assure that this, now standing —
Failed like Themselves — and conscious that it rose —
Grew by the Fact, and not the Understanding …
If ever the lid gets off my head

If ever the lid gets off my head
And lets the brain away
The fellow will go where he belonged — …
If He dissolve — then — there is nothing — more —

If He dissolve — then — there is nothing — more —
Eclipse — at Midnight —
It was dark — before — …
If I could bribe them by a Rose

If I could bribe them by a Rose
I'd bring them every flower that grows
From Amherst to Cashmere! …
If I should die,

If I should die,
And you should live —
And time should gurgle on — …

Rupert Brooke
If I shouldn't be alive

If I should n't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat …

Emily Dickinson
If I'm lost — now

If I'm lost — now
That I was found —
Shall still my transport be — …
If it is True What the Prophets write

* * *
If it is True What the Prophets write
That the heathen Gods are all stocks & stones …

William Blake
If my Bark sink

If my Bark sink
'Tis to another sea —
Mortality's Ground Floor …
If pain for peace prepares

If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await! …

Emily Dickinson
If recollecting were forgetting,

If recollecting is forgetting,
then I remember yet.
And if forgetting, recollecting, …

Emily Dickinson
If she had been the Mistletoe

If she had been the Mistletoe
And I had been the Rose —
How gay upon your table …

Emily Dickinson
If this is "fading"

If this is "fading"
Oh let me immediately "fade"!
If this is "dying" …
If those I loved were lost

If those I loved were lost
The Crier's voice would tell me —
If those I loved were found …
If What we could — were what we would —

If What we could — were what we would —
Criterion — be small —
It is the Ultimate of Talk — …

Emily Dickinson