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Several Questions Answered

Several Questions Answerd
He who binds to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy …

William Blake
Severer Service of myself

Severer Service of myself
I — hastened to demand
To fill the awful Vacuum …
Sexton! My Master's sleeping here.

Sexton! My Master's sleeping here.
Pray lead me to his bed!
I came to build the Bird's nest, …
Shall I take thee, the Poet said

Shall I take thee, the Poet said
To the propounded word?
Be stationed with the Candidates …
She bore it till the simple veins

She bore it till the simple veins
Traced azure on her hand —
Til pleading, round her quiet eyes …
She could not live upon the Past

She could not live upon the Past
The Present did not know her
And so she sought this sweet at last …
She died at play,

She died at play,
Gambolled away
Her lease of spotted hours, …

Emily Dickinson
She died — this was the way she died.

She died — this was the way she died.
And when her breath was done
Took up her simple wardrobe …

Emily Dickinson
She hideth Her the last —

She hideth Her the last —
And is the first, to rise —
Her Night doth hardly recompense …
She rose to His Requirement — dropt

She rose to His Requirement — dropt
The Playthings of Her Life
To take the honorable Work …

Emily Dickinson
She sped as Petals of a Rose

She sped as Petals of a Rose
Offended by the Wind —
A frail Aristocrat of Time …
She staked her Feathers — Gained an Arc —

She staked her Feathers — Gained an Arc —
Debated — Rose again —
This time — beyond the estimate …
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms —

She sweeps with many-colored Brooms —
And leaves the Shreds behind —
Oh Housewife in the Evening West — …

Emily Dickinson
She went as quiet as the Dew

She went as quiet as the dew
From a familiar flower.
Not like the dew did she return …

Emily Dickinson
She's happy, with a new Content —

She's happy, with a new Content —
That feels to her — like Sacrament —
She's busy — with an altered Care — …
Shells from the Coast mistaking —

Shells from the Coast mistaking —
I cherished them for All —
Happening in After Ages …
A short pastoral dialogue

(Designed for the use of her daughter and niece when very young)
LUCIA.
Come, my Delia, by this spring …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
Should you but fail at — Sea —

Should you but fail at — Sea —
In sight of me —
Or doomed lie — …
"Shouting" for a Camel

It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator,
Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' chink,
Went off to hire a camel from a camel propagator, …

Banjo Paterson
Sic transit gloria mundi

"Sic transit gloria mundi,"
"How doth the busy bee,"
"Dum vivimus vivamus," …

Emily Dickinson