1. rather

  • For Death — or rather

    For Death — or rather

    For the Things 'twould buy —

    This — put away

    Life's Opportunity —


    The Things that Death will buy

    Are Room —

    Escape from Circumstances —

    And a Name —


    With Gifts of Life

    How Death's Gifts may compare —

    We know not —
    ...

  • I'd rather recollect a setting

    I'd rather recollect a setting

    Than own a rising sun

    Though one is beautiful forgetting —

    And true the other one.


    Because in going is a Drama

    Staying cannot confer

    To die divinely once a Twilight —

    Than wane is easier —

  • Rather arid delight

    Rather arid delight

    If Contentment accrue

    Make an abstemious Ecstasy

    Not so good as joy —


    But Rapture's Expense

    Must not be incurred

    With a tomorrow knocking

    And the Rent unpaid —