• Empty my Heart, of Thee —

    Its single Artery —

    Begin, and leave Thee out —

    Simply Extinction's Date —


    Much Billow hath the Sea —

    One Baltic — They —

    Subtract Thyself, in play,

    And not enough of me

    Is left — to put away —

    "Myself" meanth Thee —


    ...

  • Quite empty, quite at rest,

    The Robin locks her Nest, and tries her Wings.

    She does not know a Route

    But puts her Craft about

    For rumored Springs —

    She does not ask for Noon —

    She does not ask for Boon,

    Crumbless and homeless, of but one request —

    The Birds she lost —