This Consciousness that is aware |
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This Consciousness that is aware
Of Neighbors and the Sun
Will be the one aware of Death
And that itself alone
Is traversing the interval
Experience between
And most profound experiment
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This dirty — little — Heart |
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This dirty — little — Heart
Is freely mine.
I won it with a Bun —
A Freckled shrine —
But eligibly fair
To him who sees
The Visage of the Soul
And not the knees.
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This docile one inter |
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This docile one inter
While we who dare to live
Arraign the sunny brevity
That sparkled to the Grave.
On her departing span
No wilderness remain
As dauntless in the House of Death
As if... |
This Dust, and its Feature — |
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This Dust, and its Feature —
Accredited — Today —
Will in a second Future —
Cease to identify —
This Mind, and its measure —
A too minute Area
For its enlarged inspection's
Comparison —... |
This ev'ning, Delia, you and I |
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This ev'ning, Delia, you and I,
Have manag'd most delightfully,
For with a frown we parted;
Having contrived some trifle that
We both may be much troubled at,
And sadly disconcerted.
Yet well... |
This heart that broke so long — |
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This heart that broke so long —
These feet that never flagged —
This faith that watched for star in vain,
Give gently to the dead —
Hound cannot overtake the Hare
That fluttered panting, here —
Nor... |
This is a Blossom of the Brain — |
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This is a Blossom of the Brain —
A small — italic Seed
Lodged by Design or Happening
The Spirit fructified —
Shy as the Wind of his Chambers
Swift as a Freshet's Tongue
So of the Flower of the Soul... |
This is my letter to the World |
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This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me —
The simple News that Nature told —
With tender Majesty
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see —
For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen —... |
This is the place they hoped before, |
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This is the place they hoped before,
Where I am hoping now.
The seed of disappointment grew
Within a capsule gay,
Too distant to arrest the feet
That walk this plank of balm —
Before them lies escapeless... |
This Life |
William Drummond of Hawthornden |
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This Life, which seems so fair,
Is like a bubble blown up in the air
By sporting children’s breath,
Who chase it everywhere
And strive who can most motion it bequeath.
And though it sometimes seem of its own might
Like to an eye of gold to be fixed... |
This Me — that walks and works — must die, |
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This Me — that walks and works — must die,
Some fair or stormy Day,
Adversity if it may be
Or wild prosperity
The Rumor's Gate was shut so tight
Before my mind was born
Not even a Prognostic's push ... |
This Merit hath the worst — |
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This Merit hath the worst —
It cannot be again —
When Fate hath taunted last
And thrown Her furthest Stone —
The Maimed may pause, and breathe,
And glance securely round —
The Deer attracts no... |
This quiet Dust was Gentleman and Ladies |
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This quiet Dust was Gentleman and Ladies
And Lads and Girls —
Was laughter and ability and Sighing
And Frocks and Curls.
This Passive Place a Summer's nimble mansion
Where Bloom and Bees
Exists an... |
This slow Day moved along — |
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This slow Day moved along —
I heard its axles go
As if they could not hoist themselves
They hated motion so —
I told my soul to come —
It was no use to wait —
We went and played and came again ... |
This that would greet — an hour ago — |
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This that would greet — an hour ago —
Is quaintest Distance — now —
Had it a Guest from Paradise —
Nor glow, would it, nor bow —
Had it a notice from the Noon
Nor beam would it nor warm —
Match me... |
This was a Poet — It is That |
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This was a Poet — It is That
Distills amazing sense
From ordinary Meanings —
And Attar so immense
From the familiar species
That perished by the Door —
We wonder it was not Ourselves
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This was in the White of the Year — |
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This was in the White of the Year —
That — was in the Green —
Drifts were as difficult then to think
As Daisies now to be seen —
Looking back is best that is left
Or if it be — before —
Retrospection... |
This World is not Conclusion. |
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This World is not Conclusion.
A Species stands beyond —
Invisible, as Music —
But positive, as Sound —
It beckons, and it baffles —
Philosophy — don't know —
And through a Riddle, at the last — ... |
This — is the land — the Sunset washes — |
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This — is the land — the Sunset washes —
These — are the Banks of the Yellow Sea —
Where it rose — or whither it rushes —
These — are the Western Mystery!
Night after Night
Her purple traffic
Strews... |
Thisbe |
Helen Gray Cone |
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The garden within was shaded,
And guarded about from sight;
The fragrance flowed to the south wind,
The fountain leaped to the light.
And the street without was narrow,
And dusty, and hot, and mean;
But the bush that bore white roses,... |