• Ourselves we do inter with sweet derision.

    The channel of the dust who once achieves

    Invalidates the balm of that religion

    That doubts as fervently as it believes.

  • Ourselves were wed one summer — dear —

    Your Vision — was in June —

    And when Your little Lifetime failed,

    I wearied — too — of mine —


    And overtaken in the Dark —

    Where You had put me down —

    By Some one carrying a Light —

    I — too — received the Sign.


    'Tis true — Our...

  • Rehearsal to Ourselves

    Of a Withdrawn Delight —

    Affords a Bliss like Murder —

    Omnipotent — Acute —


    We will not drop the Dirk —

    Because We love the Wound

    The Dirk Commemorate — Itself

    Remind Us that we died.

  • We introduce ourselves

    To Planets and to Flowers

    But with ourselves

    Have etiquettes

    Embarrassments

    And awes