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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

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Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

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Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home

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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

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In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

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Judge tenderly of me.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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Hope . . . never stops at all.

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This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

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Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

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