• His Heart was darker than the starless night

    For that there is a morn

    But in this black Receptacle

    Can be no Bode of Dawn

  • I'm the little "Heart's Ease"!

    I don't care for pouting skies!

    If the Butterfly delay

    Can I, therefore, stay away?


    If the Coward Bumble Bee

    In his chimney corner stay,

    I, must resoluter be!

    Who'll apologize for me?


    Dear, Old fashioned, little flower!

    Eden...

  • If I can stop one heart from breaking,

    I shall not live in vain ;

    If I can ease one life the aching,

    Or cool one pain,

    Or help one fainting robin

    Unto his nest again,

    I shall not live in vain.

  • It's thoughts — and just One Heart —

    And Old Sunshine — about —

    Make frugal — Ones — Content —

    And two or three — for Company —

    Upon a Holiday —

    Crowded — as Sacrament —


    Books — when the Unit —

    Spare the Tenant — long eno' —

    A Picture — if it Care —

    Itself — a...

  • My Heart ran so to thee

    It would not wait for me

    And I affronted grew

    And drew away


    For whatsoe'er my pace

    He first achieve they Face

    How general a Grace

    Allotted two —


    Not in malignity

    Mentioned I this to thee —

    Had he obliquity

    ...

  • My Heart upon a little Plate

    Her Palate to delight

    A Berry or a Bun, would be,

    Might it an Apricot!

  • Not with a Club, the Heart is broken

    Nor with a Stone —

    A Whip so small you could not see it

    I've known


    To lash the Magic Creature

    Till it fell,

    Yet that Whip's Name

    Too noble then to tell.


    Magnanimous as Bird

    By Boy descried —

    Singing unto the...

  • Of the Heart that goes in, and closes the Door

    Shall the Playfellow Heart complain

    Though the Ring is unwhole, and the Company broke

    Can never be fitted again?

  • Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,

    It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over.


    Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in Heaven will mind it,

    And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.


    Though perfect the player's touch, little, if any, he sways us...

  • Poor little Heart!

    Did they forget thee?

    Then dinna care! Then dinna care!


    Proud little Heart!

    Did they forsake thee?

    Be debonnaire! Be debonnaire!


    Frail little Heart!

    I would not break thee —

    Could'st credit me? Could'st credit me?


    Gay little Heart...