• The words the happy say

    Are paltry melody

    But those the silent feel

    Are beautiful —

  • The Work of Her that went,

    The Toil of Fellows done —

    In Ovens green our Mother bakes,

    By Fires of the Sun.

  • The World — feels Dusty

    When We stop to Die —

    We want the Dew — then —

    Honors — taste dry —


    Flags — vex a Dying face —

    But the least Fan

    Stirred by a friend's Hand —

    Cools — like the Rain —


    Mine be the Ministry

    When thy Thirst comes —

    And Hybla...

  • The World — stands — solemner — to me —

    Since I was wed — to Him —

    A modesty befits the soul

    That bears another's — name —

    A doubt — if it be fair — indeed —

    To wear that perfect — pearl —

    The Man — upon the Woman — binds —

    To clasp her soul — for all —

    A prayer, that it more...

  • The worthlessness of Earthly things

    The Ditty is that Nature Sings —

    And then — enforces their delight

    Till Synods are inordinate —

  • The Zeroes — taught us — Phosphorous —

    We learned to like the Fire

    By playing Glaciers — when a Boy —

    And Tinder — guessed — by power

    Of Opposite — to balance Odd —

    If White — a Red — must be!

    Paralysis — our Primer — dumb —

    Unto Vitality!

  • Their Barricade against the Sky

    The martial Trees withdraw

    And with a Flag at every turn

    Their Armies are no more.


    What Russet Halts in Nature's March

    They indicate or cause

    An inference of Mexico

    Effaces the Surmise —


    Recurrent to the After Mind

    That...

  • Their dappled importunity

    Disparage or dismiss —

    The Obloquies of Etiquette

    Are obsolete to Bliss —