While Asters —

On the Hill —

Their Everlasting fashions — set —

And Covenant Gentians — Frill!

Poet:

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 —

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:

White as an Indian Pipe

Red as a Cardinal Flower

Fabulous as a Moon at Noon

February Hour —

Poet:
Poet:

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:

Who Court obtain within Himself

Sees every Man a King —

And Poverty of Monarchy

Is an interior thing —


No Man depose

Whom Fate Ordain —

And Who can add a Crown

To Him who doth continual...

Poet:

Who Giants know, with lesser Men

Are incomplete, and shy —

For Greatness, that is ill at ease

In minor Company —


A Smaller, could not be perturbed —

The Summer Gnat displays —

Unconscious that his...

Poet:

Who goes to dine must take his Feast

Or find the Banquet mean —

The Table is not laid without

Till it is laid within.


For Pattern is the Mind bestowed

That imitating her

Our most ignoble Services...

Poet:

Who has not found the Heaven — below —

Will fail of it above —

For Angels rent the House next ours,

Wherever we remove —

Poet: