• What I can do — I will —

    Though it be little as a Daffodil —

    That I cannot — must be

    Unknown to possibility —

  • 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

    The Features so beloved —-


    And I arise — and in my Dream —

    Do...

  • 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!


    They cannot take me — any more!

    Dungeons can call — and Guns implore

    Unmeaning...

  • 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

    In an abyss's face!


    The grass does not appear afraid,

    I...

  • 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 —

    I sent it — even now?


    It should not tease you —

    By your chair — or,...

  • 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 —

    Of Deity — ashamed —


    It's such a common — Glory —

    A Fisherman's —...

  • 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.

  • What Twigs We held by —

    Oh the View

    When Life's swift River striven through

    We pause before a further plunge

    To take Momentum —

    As the Fringe


    Upon a former Garment shows

    The Garment cast,

    Our Props disclose

    So scant, so eminently small

    Of Might to...

  • What we see we know somewhat

    Be it but a little —

    What we don't surmise we do

    Though it shows so fickle


    I shall vote for Lands with Locks

    Granted I can pick 'em —

    Transport's doubtful Dividend

    Patented by Adam.

  • What would I give to see his face?

    I'd give — I'd give my life — of course —

    But that is not enough!

    Stop just a minute — let me think!

    I'd give my biggest Bobolink!

    That makes two — Him — and Life!

    You know who "June" is —

    I'd give her —

    Roses a day from Zanzibar —

    ...