What I can do — I will —

Though it be little as a Daffodil —

That I cannot — must be

Unknown to possibility —

Poet:

What I see not, I better see —

Through Faith — my Hazel Eye

Has periods of shutting —

But, No lid has Memory —


For frequent, all my sense obscured

I equally behold

As someone held a light unto
...

Poet:

What if I say I shall not wait!

What if I burst the fleshly Gate —

And pass escaped — to thee!


What if I file this Mortal — off —

See where it hurt me — That's enough —

And wade in Liberty!


...

Poet:

What Inn is this

Where for the night

Peculiar Traveller comes?

Who is the Landlord?

Where the maids?

Behold, what curious rooms!

No ruddy fires on the hearth —

No brimming Tankards flow —...

Poet:

What is — "Paradise" —

Who live there —

Are they "Farmers" —

Do they "hoe" —

Do they know that this is "Amherst" —

And that I — am coming — too —


Do they wear "new shoes" — in "Eden" —

Is...

Poet:

What mystery pervades a well!

That water lives so far —

A neighbor from another world

Residing in a jar


Whose limit none have ever seen,

But just his lid of glass —

Like looking every time you please...

Poet:

What shall I do when the Summer troubles —

What, when the Rose is ripe —

What when the Eggs fly off in Music

From the Maple Keep?


What shall I do when the Skies a'chirrup

Drop a Tune on me —

When the...

Poet:

What shall I do — it whimpers so —

This little Hound within the Heart

All day and night with bark and start —

And yet, it will not go —

Would you untie it, were you me —

Would it stop whining — if to Thee —
...

Poet:

What Soft — Cherubic Creatures —

These Gentlewomen are —

One would as soon assault a Plush —

Or violate a Star —


Such Dimity Convictions —

A Horror so refined

Of freckled Human Nature —

...

Poet:

What tenements of clover

Are fitting for the bee,

What edifices azure

For butterflies and me —

What residences nimble

Arise and evanesce

Without a rhythmic rumor

Or an assaulting guess.

...
Poet: