1. early

  • I started Early — Took my Dog —

    I started Early — Took my Dog —

    And visited the Sea —

    The Mermaids in the Basement

    Came out to look at me —


    And Frigates — in the Upper Floor

    Extended Hempen Hands —

    Presuming Me to be a Mouse —

    Aground — upon the Sands —


    But no Man moved Me — till the Tide
    ...

  • Not all die early, dying young —

    Not all die early, dying young —

    Maturity of Fate

    Is consummated equally

    In Ages, or a Night —


    A Hoary Boy, I've known to drop

    Whole statured — by the side

    Of Junior of Fourscore — 'twas Act

    Not Period — that died.

  • An old maid early eer I knew



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    An old maid early eer I knew

    Ought but the love that on me grew

    And now Im coverd oer & oer

    And wish that I had been a Whore


    O I cannot cannot find

    The undaunted courage of a Virgin Mind

    For Early I in love was crost

    Before my flower of...

  • The Beggar Lad — dies early —

    The Beggar Lad — dies early —

    It's Somewhat in the Cold —

    And Somewhat in the Trudging feet —

    And haply, in the World —


    The Cruel — smiling — bowing World —

    That took its Cambric Way —

    Nor heard the timid cry for "Bread" —

    "Sweet Lady — Charity" —


    Among Redeemed...

  • Washington. On Huntington's picture of Washington crossing the Alleghany in early life

            More proudly on thy winding course,

                Dark Alleghany! flow;

            The noblest burden thou couldst bear

                Is on thy waters now.

     

            But calm be every turbid wave,

                And hushed be wind and storm:

            There lies a Nation's destiny
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