1. first

  • The first Day's Night had come —

    The first Day's Night had come —

    And grateful that a thing

    So terrible — had been endured —

    I told my Soul to sing —


    She said her Strings were snapt —

    Her Bow — to Atoms blown —

    And so to mend her — gave me work

    Until another Morn —


    And then — a Day as huge
    ...

  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 1

          "North and South too many an hour

                I've by the skipper held the wheel;

           Seen too many a hissing shower

                O'er my old sou'-wester reel."

  • The first We knew of Him was Death —

    The first We knew of Him was Death —

    The second — was — Renown —

    Except the first had justified

    The second had not been.

  • The Heart asks Pleasure — first —

    The heart asks pleasure first,

    And then, excuse from pain ;

    And then, those little anodynes

    That deaden suffering ;


    And then, to go to sleep ;

    And then, if it should be

    The will of its Inquisitor,

    The...

  • The Popular Heart is a Cannon first —

    The Popular Heart is a Cannon first —

    Subsequent a Drum —

    Bells for an Auxiliary

    And an Afterward of Rum —


    Not a Tomorrow to know its name

    Nor a Past to stare —

    Ditches for Realms and a Trip to Jail

    For a Souvenir —

  • We thirst at first — 'tis Nature's Act —

    We thirst at first — 'tis Nature's Act —

    And later — when we die —

    A little Water supplicate —

    Of fingers going by —


    It intimates the finer want —

    Whose adequate supply

    Is that Great Water in the West —

    Termed Immortality —