To flee from memory

Had we the Wings

Many would fly

Inured to slower things

Birds with surprise

Would scan the cowering Van

Of men escaping

From the mind of man

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To forgive Enemies H . does pretend

Who never in his Life forgave a friend

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To F——


I mock thee not tho I by thee am Mocked

Thou callst me Madman but I call thee Blockhead

Poet:


To F——


You call me Mad tis Folly to do so

To seek to turn a Madman to a Foe

If you think as you speak you are an Ass

If you do not you are but what you was

Poet:

          No Eastern tale, no annals of the past,

             Of Greece or Rome, deeds such as thine relate,

             Deeds kings and emperors might emulate,

          That o'er thy native land new luster cast;

          The...

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To God


If you have formd a Circle to go into

Go into it yourself & see how you would do

Poet:


To H


You think Fuseli is not a Great Painter Im Glad

This is one of the best compliments he ever had

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To hang our head — ostensibly —

And subsequent, to find

That such was not the posture

Of our immortal mind —


Affords the sly presumption

That in so dense a fuzz —

You — too — take Cobweb attitudes...

Poet:

To hear an Oriole sing

May be a common thing —

Or only a divine.


It is not of the Bird

Who sings the same, unheard,

As unto Crowd —


The Fashion of the Ear

Attireth that it hear...

Poet:

To help our Bleaker Parts

Salubrious Hours are given

Which if they do not fit for Earth

Drill silently for Heaven —

Poet: