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Where Ships of Purple — gently toss — Where Ships of Purple — gently toss — On Seas of Daffodil — Fantastic Sailors — mingle — And then — the Wharf is still! Poet:	Whether my bark went down at sea — Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales, Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails ; By what mystic mooring... Poet:	Whether they have forgotten Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered — Safer not to know — Miseries of conjecture Are a softer woe Than a Fact of Iron Hardened with I know — Poet:	Which is best? Heaven — Which is best? Heaven — Or only Heaven to come With that old Codicil of Doubt? I cannot help esteem The "Bird within the Hand" Superior to the one The "Bush" may yield me Or may not... Poet:
Which is the best — the Moon or the Crescent? Which is the best — the Moon or the Crescent? Neither — said the Moon — That is best which is not — Achieve it — You efface the Sheen. Not of detention is Fruition — Shudder to attain. Transport's... Poet:	Which misses most, Which misses most, The hand that tends, Or heart so gently borne, 'Tis twice as heavy as it was Because the hand is gone? Which blesses most, The lip that can, Or that that went to sleep... Poet:	While Asters — While Asters — On the Hill — Their Everlasting fashions — set — And Covenant Gentians — Frill! Poet:	While it is alive While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood Under one Sacrament Show me Division can split or pare — Love is like Life — merely longer Love is... Poet:
While we were fearing it, it came — While we were fearing it, it came — But came with less of fear Because that fearing it so long Had almost made it fair — There is a Fitting — a Dismay — A Fitting — a Despair 'Tis harder knowing it... Poet:	Who abdicated Ambush Who abdicated Ambush And went the way of Dusk, And now against his subtle Name There stands an Asterisk As confident of him as we — Impregnable we are — The whole of Immortality Secreted in a... Poet: