The heart asks pleasure first,    And then, excuse from pain;    And then, those little anodynes    That deaden suffering;     And then, to go to sleep;    And then, if it should…

 The brain within its groove    Runs evenly and true;    But let a splinter swerve,    ‘T were easier for you    To put the water back    When floods have slit the hills,    And…

 The bee is not afraid of me,    I know the butterfly;    The pretty people in the woods    Receive me cordially.     The brooks laugh louder when I come,    The breezes…

    So bashful when I spied her,    So pretty, so ashamed!    So hidden in her leaflets,    Lest anybody find;     So breathless till I passed her,    So helpless when I turned    And…

Safe in their alabaster chambers,    Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,    Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,    Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.     Light laughs…

 Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn    Indicative that suns go down;    The notice to the startled grass    That darkness is about to pass.

 Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower?    But I could never sell.    If you would like to borrow    Until the daffodil     Unties her yellow bonnet    Beneath the village door,    Until…

  Our share of night to bear,    Our share of morning,    Our blank in bliss to fill,    Our blank in scorning.     Here a star, and there a star,    Some lose…

 One dignity delays for all,    One mitred afternoon.    None can avoid this purple,    None evade this crown.     Coach it insures, and footmen,    Chamber and state and throng;    Bells, also, in…

 On this long storm the rainbow rose,    On this late morn the sun;    The clouds, like listless elephants,    Horizons straggled down.     The birds rose smiling in their nests,    The…