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"AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground."
"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved."
"Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!"
"This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---"
"Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love."
"I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?"
"Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."
"The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can."
"Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom."
"Action is redemption."
"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
"To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea."
"Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out"
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--"
"Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground"
"Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-."
"I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said."
"The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity"
"Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility."
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."