1. light

  • Light is sufficient to itself —

    Light is sufficient to itself —

    If Others want to see

    It can be had on Window Panes

    Some Hours in the Day.


    But not for Compensation —

    It holds as large a Glow

    To Squirrel in the Himmaleh

    Precisely, as to you.

  • Of their peculiar light

    Of their peculiar light

    I keep one ray

    To clarify the Sight

    To seek them by —

  • Pass to they Rendezvous of Light,

    Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light,

    Pangless except for us —

    Who slowly for the Mystery

    Which thou hast leaped across!

  • The Fingers of the Light

    The Fingers of the Light

    Tapped soft upon the Town

    With "I am great and cannot wait

    So therefore let me in."


    "You're soon," the Town replied,

    "My Faces are asleep —

    But swear, and I will let you by,

    You will not wake them up."


    The easy Guest complied

    But...

  • The Poets light but Lamps —

    The Poets light but Lamps —

    Themselves — go out —

    The Wicks they stimulate —

    If vital Light


    Inhere as do the Suns —

    Each Age a Lens

    Disseminating their

    Circumference —

  • Under the Light, yet under,

    Under the Light, yet under,

    Under the Grass and the Dirt,

    Under the Beetle's Cellar

    Under the Clover's Root,


    Further than Arm could stretch

    Were it Giant long,

    Further than Sunshine could

    Were the Day Year long,


    Over the Light, yet over,

    Over the Arc of the...