• The Heart has many Doors —

    I can but knock —

    For any sweet "Come in"

    Impelled to hark —

    Not saddened by repulse,

    Repast to me

    That somewhere, there exists,

    Supremacy —

  • The Heart has narrow Banks

    It measures like the Sea

    In mighty — unremitting Bass

    And Blue Monotony


    Till Hurricane bisect

    And as itself discerns

    Its insufficient Area

    The Heart convulsive learns


    That Calm is but a Wall

    Of unattempted Gauze

    An...

  • The Heart is the Capital of the Mind —

    The Mind is a single State —

    The Heart and the Mind together make

    A single Continent —


    One — is the Population —

    Numerous enough —

    This ecstatic Nation

    Seek — it is Yourself.

  • The Mind lives on the Heart

    Like any Parasite —

    If that is full of Meat

    The Mind is fat.


    But if the Heart omit

    Emaciate the Wit —

    The Aliment of it

    So absolute.

  • The mob within the heart

    Police cannot suppress

    The riot given at the first

    Is authorized as peace


    Uncertified of scene

    Or signified of sound

    But growing like a hurricane

    In a congenial ground.

  • The Popular Heart is a Cannon first —

    Subsequent a Drum —

    Bells for an Auxiliary

    And an Afterward of Rum —


    Not a Tomorrow to know its name

    Nor a Past to stare —

    Ditches for Realms and a Trip to Jail

    For a Souvenir —

  • This heart that broke so long —

    These feet that never flagged —

    This faith that watched for star in vain,

    Give gently to the dead —


    Hound cannot overtake the Hare

    That fluttered panting, here —

    Nor any schoolboy rob the nest

    Tenderness builded there.

  • To break so vast a Heart

    Required a Blow as vast —

    No Zephyr felled this Cedar straight —

    'Twas undeserved Blast —


  • To H


    Thy Friendship oft has made my heart to ake

    Do be my Enemy for Friendships sake

  • Unto a broken heart

    No other one may go

    Without the high prerogative

    Itself hath suffered too.