1. asked

  • As if I asked a common Alms,


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  • I asked no other thing —

    I asked no other thing.

    No other was denied.

    I offered Being for it ;

    The mighty merchant smiled.


    Brazil ?  He twirled a button,

    Without a glance my way :

    "But, madam, is there nothing else

    That we can show...

  • Perhaps I asked too large —

    Perhaps I asked too large —

    I take — no less than skies —

    For Earths, grow thick as

    Berries, in my native town —


    My Basket holds — just — Firmaments —

    Those — dangle easy — on my arm,

    But smaller bundles — Cram.

  • To a friend, on being asked for some verses

            I thought the Soul of Song had made

                This heart of mine her sepulchre;

            For all her golden dreams had fled,

                And I could win no note from her.

     

            But when for thee thou bid'st her sing,

                That spell dissolves her icy chain;

            She...

  • Whose are the little beds, I asked

    Whose are the little beds, I asked

    Which in the valleys lie?

    Some shook their heads, and others smiled —

    And no one made reply.


    Perhaps they did not hear, I said,

    I will inquire again —

    Whose are the beds — the tiny beds

    So thick upon the plain?


    'Tis Daisy, in the...