• Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds

    To drink — enables Mine

    Through Desert or the Wilderness

    As bore it Sealed Wine —


    To go elastic — Or as One

    The Camel's trait — attained —

    How powerful the Stimulus

    Of an Hermetic Mind —

  • Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning —

    Lightning — lets away

    Power to perceive His Process

    With Vitality.


    Maimed — was I — yet not by Venture —

    Stone of stolid Boy —

    Nor a Sportsman's Peradventure —

    Who mine Enemy?


    Robbed — was I — intact to Bandit —

    All my...

  • Such are the inlets of the mind —

    His outlets — would you see

    Ascend with me the eminence

    Of immortality —

  • Such is the Force of Happiness —

    The Least — can lift a Ton

    Assisted by its stimulus —


    Who Misery — sustain —

    No Sinew can afford —

    The Cargo of Themselves —

    Too infinite for Consciousness'

    Slow capabilities.

  • Summer for thee, grant I may be

    When Summer days are flown!

    Thy music still, when Whipporwill

    And Oriole — are done!


    For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb

    And row my blossoms o'er!

    Pray gather me —

    Anemone —

    Thy flower — forevermore!

  • Summer has two Beginnings —

    Beginning once in June —

    Beginning in October

    Affectingly again —


    Without, perhaps, the Riot

    But graphicker for Grace —

    As finer is a going

    Than a remaining Face —


    Departing then — forever —

    Forever — until May —

    ...

  • Summer is shorter than any one —

    Life is shorter than Summer —

    Seventy Years is spent as quick

    As an only Dollar —


    Sorrow — now — is polite — and stays —

    See how well we spurn him —

    Equally to abhor Delight —

    Equally retain him —