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"To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand."
"Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-"
"A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods"
"in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power."
"You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate."
"One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most."
"We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore."
"To die before one fears to die may be a boon."
"God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me."
"His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part."
"There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon."
"Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?"
"This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!"
"A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone"
"Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on."
"The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all."
"An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere."
"To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-."
"There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death."
"To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!"