• He is alive, this morning —

    He is alive — and awake —

    Birds are resuming for Him —

    Blossoms — dress for His Sake.

    Bees — to their Loaves of Honey

    Add an Amber Crumb

    Him — to regale — Me — Only —

    Motion, and am dumb.

  • I am alive — I guess —

    The Branches on my Hand

    Are full of Morning Glory —

    And at my finger's end —


    The Carmine — tingles warm —

    And if I hold a Glass

    Across my Mouth — it blurs it —

    Physician's — proof of Breath —


    I am alive — because

    I am not in a Room —...

  • If I should n't be alive

    When the robins come,

    Give the one in red cravat

    A memorial crumb.


    If I could n't thank you,

    Being just asleep,

    You will know I'm trying

    With my granite lip !

  • It feels a shame to be Alive —

    When Men so brave — are dead —

    One envies the Distinguished Dust —

    Permitted — such a Head —


    The Stone — that tells defending Whom

    This Spartan put away

    What little of Him we — possessed

    In Pawn for Liberty —


    The price is great —...

  • To be alive — is Power —

    Existence — in itself —

    Without a further function —

    Omnipotence — Enough —


    To be alive — and Will!

    'Tis able as a God —

    The Maker — of Ourselves — be what —

    Such being Finitude!

  • While it is alive

    Until Death touches it

    While it and I lap one Air

    Dwell in one Blood

    Under one Sacrament

    Show me Division can split or pare —


    Love is like Life — merely longer

    Love is like Death, during the Grave

    Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection

    Scooping...