Her smile was shaped like other smiles —

The Dimples ran along —

And still it hurt you, as some Bird

Did hoist herself, to sing,

Then recollect a Ball, she got —

And hold upon the Twig,

Convulsive, while...

Poet:

I asked no other thing.

No other was denied.

I offered Being for it ;

The mighty merchant smiled.


Brazil ?  He twirled a button,

...

Poet:

I lost a World — the other day!

Has Anybody found?

You'll know it by the Row of Stars

Around its forehead bound.


A Rich man — might not notice it —

Yet — to my frugal Eye,

Of more Esteem than Ducats...

Poet:

No Other can reduce

Our mortal Consequence

Like the remembering it be nought

A Period from hence

But Contemplation for

Contemporaneous Nought

Our Single Competition

Jehovah's Estimate.

...
Poet:
Poet:

We talked with each other about each other

Though neither of us spoke —

We were listening to the seconds' Races

And the Hoofs of the Clock —

Pausing in Front of our Palsied Faces

Time compassion took —

...

Poet:
Poet:
Poet: