• Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
    Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
    Alone upon the threshold of my door
    Of individual life, I shall command
    The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
    Serenely in the sunshine as before,
    Without the sense of that which I forbore,…
    Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land
    Doom takes to part us...

  • Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth —

    Widths out of the Sun —

    And look — and shudder, and block your breath —

    And deem to be alone


    In such a place, what horror,

    How Goblin it would be —

    And fly, as 'twere pursuing you?

    Then Loneliness — looks so —


    Did you ever look...

  • How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand,

    Until a sudden sky

    Reveals the fact that One is rapt

    Forever from the Eye —


    Members of the Invisible,

    Existing, while we stare,

    In Leagueless Opportunity,

    O'ertakenless, as the Air —


    Why didn't we detain Them?

    The...

  • Of all the Souls that stand create —

    I have elected — One —

    When Sense from Spirit — files away —

    And Subterfuge — is done —

    When that which is — and that which was —

    Apart — intrinsic — stand —

    And this brief Drama in the flesh —

    Is shifted — like a Sand —

    When Figures show their...

  • The Soul should always stand ajar

    That if the Heaven inquire

    He will not be obliged to wait

    Or shy of troubling Her


    Depart, before the Host have slid

    The Bolt unto the Door —

    To search for the accomplished Guest,

    Her Visitor, no more —

  • To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,

    What must the Midnights — be!

  • When we stand on the tops of Things —

    And like the Trees, look down —

    The smoke all cleared away from it —

    And Mirrors on the scene —


    Just laying light — no soul will wink

    Except it have the flaw —

    The Sound ones, like the Hills — shall stand —

    No Lighting, scares away —

    ...