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  • I have a Bird in spring

    I have a Bird in spring
    Which for myself doth sing -
    The spring decoys.
    ...

  • I have a King, who does not speak —

    I have a King, who does not speak —

    So — wondering — thro' the hours meek

    I trudge the day away —

    Half glad when it is night, and sleep,

    If, haply, thro' a dream, to peep

    In parlors, shut by day.


    And if I do — when morning comes —

    It is as if a hundred drums

    Did round my...

  • I have never seen "Volcanoes" —

    I have never seen "Volcanoes" —

    But, when Travellers tell

    How those old — phlegmatic mountains

    Usually so still —


    Bear within — appalling Ordnance,

    Fire, and smoke, and gun,

    Taking Villages for breakfast,

    And appalling Men —


    If the stillness is Volcanic

    In...

  • I have no Life but this —

    I have no Life but this —

    To lead it here —

    Nor any Death — but lest

    Dispelled from there —


    Nor tie to Earths to come —

    Nor Action new —

    Except through this extent —

    The Realm of you —

  • I haven't told my garden yet —

    I haven't told my garden yet —

    Lest that should conquer me.

    I haven't quite the strength now

    To break it to the Bee —


    I will not name it in the street

    For shops would stare at me —

    That one so shy — so ignorant

    Should have the face to die.


    The hillsides must not know...

  • I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —

    I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —

    The Stillness in the Room

    Was like the Stillness in the Air —

    Between the Heaves of Storm —


    The Eyes around — had wrung them dry —

    And Breaths were gathering firm

    For that last Onset — when the King

    Be witnessed — in the Room —


    I...

  • I heard an Angel singing



     * * *


    I heard an Angel singing

    When the day was springing,

    ‘Mercy, Pity, Peace,

    Is the world’s release.’


    Thus he sung all day

    Over the new mown hay,

    Till the sun went down

    And haycocks looked brown.


    I heard a Devil curse

    ...

  • I heard, as if I had no Ear

    I heard, as if I had no Ear

    Until a Vital Word

    Came all the way from Life to me

    And then I knew I heard.


    I saw, as if my Eye were on

    Another, till a Thing

    And now I know 'twas Light, because

    It fitted them, came in.


    I dwelt, as if Myself, were out,

    My Body...

  • I held a Jewel in my fingers —

    I held a Jewel in my fingers —

    And went to sleep —

    The day was warm, and winds were prosy —

    I said "'Twill keep" —


    I woke — and chid my honest fingers,

    The Gem was gone —

    And now, an Amethyst remembrance

    Is all I own —

  • I hide myself within my flower,

    I hide myself within my flower,

    That fading from your Vase,

    You, unsuspecting, feel for me —

    Almost a loneliness.