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Publication — is the Auction

Publication — is the Auction
Of the Mind of Man —
Poverty — be justifying …

Emily Dickinson
Purple — is fashionable twice —

Purple — is fashionable twice —
This season of the year,
And when a soul perceives itself …
Pursuing you in your transitions,

Pursuing you in your transitions,
In other Motes —
Of other Myths …
The Quangle Wangle's Hat

I.
ON the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat, …

Edward Lear
Real

I like a look of agony
Because I know it 's true ;
Men do not sham convulsion, …

Emily Dickinson
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!

Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom! …
Recollect the Face of me

Recollect the Face of me
When in thy Felicity,
Due in Paradise today …
Reconstruction (Paterson)

So, the bank has bust it's boiler! And in six or seven year
It will pay me all my money back -- of course!
But the horse will perish waiting while the grass is germinating, …

Banjo Paterson
Red Riding-hood (Carroll)

Into the wood - the dark, dark wood -
Forth went the happy child;
And, in its stillest solitude, …
The Relic (Donne)

⁠WHEN my grave is broke up again
⁠Some second guest to entertain,
⁠—For graves have learn'd that woman-head, …

John Donne
Remembrance has a Rear and Front —

Remembrance has a Rear and Front —
'Tis something like a House —
It has a Garret also …

Emily Dickinson
Remorse — is Memory — awake —

Remorse is memory awake,
Her companies astir,---
A presence of departed acts …

Emily Dickinson
Removed from Accident of Loss

Removed from Accident of Loss
By Accident of Gain
Befalling not my simple Days — …
Requiem (Botta)

To what bright world afar didst thou belong,
Thou whose pure soul seemed not of mortal birth?
From what fair clime of flowers and love and song, …

Anne Lynch Botta
Resurgam

At last to be identified !
At last, the lamps upon thy side,
The rest of life to see ! …

Emily Dickinson
Resurrection (Dickinson)

'T was a long parting, but the time
For interview had come ;
Before the judgment-seat of God, …

Emily Dickinson
Retirement (Cowper)

Hackney'd in business, wearied at the oar
Which thousands, once fast chain'd to, quit no more,
But which when life at ebb runs weak and low, …

William Cowper
Reverse cannot befall

Reverse cannot befall
That fine Prosperity
Whose Sources are interior — …

Emily Dickinson
Ribbons of the Year —

Ribbons of the Year —
Multitude Brocade —
Worn to Nature's Party once …
Riches (Blake)

Riches
The countless gold of a merry heart
The rubies & pearls of a loving eye …

William Blake