• Good Morning — Midnight —

    I'm coming Home —

    Day — got tired of Me —

    How could I — of Him?


    Sunshine was a sweet place —

    I liked to stay —

    But Morn — didn't want me — now —

    So — Goodnight — Day!


    I can look — can't I —

    When the East is Red?

    The...

  • Good Night! Which put the Candle out?

    A jealous Zephyr — not a doubt —

    Ah, friend, you little knew

    How long at that celestial wick

    The Angels — labored diligent —

    Extinguished — now — for you!


    It might — have been the Light House spark —

    Some Sailor — rowing in the Dark —

    ...

  • Good night, because we must,

    How intricate the dust!

    I would go, to know!

    Oh incognito!

    Saucy, Saucy Seraph

    To elude me so!

    Father! they won't tell me,

    Won't you tell them to?

  • Good to hide, and hear 'em hunt!

    Better, to be found,

    If one care to, that is,

    The Fox fits the Hound —


    Good to know, and not tell,

    Best, to know and tell,

    Can one find the rare Ear

    Not too dull —

  • I WONDER by my troth, what thou and I

    Did, till we loved? were we not wean'd till then?

    But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?

    Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den?

    'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be;

    If ever any beauty I did see,

    Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee....

  • The Grass so little has to do —

    A Sphere of simple Green —

    With only Butterflies to brood

    And Bees to entertain —


    And stir all day to pretty Tunes

    The Breezes fetch along —

    And hold the Sunshine in its lap

    And bow to everything —


    And thread...

  • Gratitude — is not the mention

    Of a Tenderness,

    But its still appreciation

    Out of Plumb of Speech.


    When the Sea return no Answer

    By the Line and Lead

    Proves it there's no Sea, or rather

    A remoter Bed?

  • Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain,

      He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue:

      Taken from life when life and love were new

    The youngest of the martyrs here is lain,

    Fair as Sebastian, and as early slain.

      No cypress shades his grave, no funeral yew,

      But gentle violets weeping with the...

  • Great Caesar! Condescend

    The Daisy, to receive,

    Gathered by Cato's Daughter,

    With your majestic leave!