• Under the Light, yet under,

    Under the Grass and the Dirt,

    Under the Beetle's Cellar

    Under the Clover's Root,


    Further than Arm could stretch

    Were it Giant long,

    Further than Sunshine could

    Were the Day Year long,


    Over the Light, yet over,

    Over the Arc of the...

  • This is the place where they all were bred;

    Some of the rafters are standing still;

    Now they are scattered and lost and dead,

    Every one from the old nest fled,

    Out of the shadow of Kiley's Hill.


    Better it is that they ne'er came back --

    Changes and chances are quickly rung;

    Now the old...



  • I HAVE done one braver thing
    Than all the Worthies did;

    And yet a braver thence doth spring,
    Which is, to keep that hid.


    It were but madness now to impart
    ⁠...

  • Undue Significance a starving man attaches

    To Food —

    Far off — He sighs — and therefore — Hopeless —

    And therefore — Good —


    Partaken — it relieves — indeed —

    But proves us

    That Spices fly

    In the Receipt — It was the Distance —

    Was Savory —

  • Unfulfilled to Observation —

    Incomplete — to Eye —

    But to Faith — a Revolution

    In Locality —


    Unto Us — the Suns extinguish —

    To our Opposite —

    New Horizons — they embellish —

    Fronting Us — with Night.

  • Unit, like Death, for Whom?

    True, like the Tomb,

    Who tells no secret

    Told to Him —

    The Grave is strict —

    Tickets admit

    Just two — the Bearer —

    And the Borne —

    And seat — just One —

    The Living — tell —

    The Dying — but a Syllable —

    The Coy Dead —...

  • Father of all! In every age,

    In ev'ry clime ador'd,

    By saint, by savage, and by sage,

    Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!


    Thou Great First Cause, least understood,

    Who all my sense confin'd

    To know but this, that...

  • 'T was such a little, little boat

    That toddled down the bay !

    'T was such a gallant, gallant sea

    That beckoned it away !


    'T was such a greedy, greedy wave

    That licked it from the coast ;

    Nor ever guessed the stately...

  •            Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend,

               To love me, though I die, thy whole life long,

               And love no other till thy days shall end;

               Nay, it were rash and wrong.


               If thou canst love another, be it so;

               I would not reach out of my quiet grave...

  • Until the Desert knows

    That Water grows

    His Sands suffice

    But let him once suspect

    That Caspian Fact

    Sahara dies


    Utmost is relative —

    Have not or Have

    Adjacent sums

    Enough — the first Abode

    On the familiar Road

    Galloped in Dreams —

    ...