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

Poet:

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!
...

Poet:

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...

Poet:

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 —...

Poet:

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 —


...

Poet:

My Heart upon a little Plate

Her Palate to delight

A Berry or a Bun, would be,

Might it an Apricot!

Poet:

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...

Poet:

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?

Poet:

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...

Poet:

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...

Poet: