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Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear
While Titians &c as in the Book of Moonlight p 5
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Delight is as the flight —
Or in the Ratio of it,
As the Schools would say —
The Rainbow's way —
A Skein
Flung colored, after Rain,
Would suit as bright,
Except that flight
Were Aliment —
"If it would last"
I asked the East,
When that Bent...Delight — becomes pictorial —
When viewed through Pain —
More fair — because impossible
Than any gain —
The Mountain — at a given distance —
In Amber — lies —
Approached — the Amber flits — a little —
And That's — the Skies —Delight's Despair at setting
Is that Delight is less
Than the sufficing Longing
That so impoverish.
Enchantment's Perihelion
Mistaken oft has been
For the Authentic orbit
Of its Anterior Sun.Denial — is the only fact
Perceived by the Denied —
Whose Will — a numb significance —
The Day the Heaven died —
And all the Earth strove common round —
Without Delight, or Beam —
What Comfort was it Wisdom — was —
The spoiler of Our Home?Departed to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon ;
Great clouds like ushers leaning,
Creation looking on.
The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The bodiless begun ;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the...Deprived of other Banquet,
I entertained Myself —
At first — a scant nutrition —
An insufficient Loaf —
But grown by slender addings
To so esteemed a size
'Tis sumptuous enough for me —
And almost to suffice
A Robin's famine able —
Red Pilgrim, He and I —...To Rosalinda, now from town retir'd,
Where noblest hearts her brilliant eyes have fir'd;
Whom nightingales in fav'rite bow'rs delight,
Where sweetest flow'rs perfume the fragrant night;
Where music's charms enchant the fleeting hours,
And wit transports with all Thalia's pow'rs;
Alexis...Despair's advantage is achieved
By suffering — Despair —
To be assisted of Reverse
One must Reverse have bore —
The Worthiness of Suffering like
The Worthiness of Death
Is ascertained by tasting —
As can no other Mouth
Of Savors — make us conscious —
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Come Grief, and sing a solemn dirge
Beneath this midnight shade;
From central darkness now emerge,
And tread the lonely glade.
Attend each...