A Prison gets to be a friend - Between it's Ponderous face And Our's - a Kinsmanship express - And in it's narrow Eyes - We come to look with gratitude For the appointed Beam It deal us - stated as Our food - And hungered for - the same - We learn to know the Planks - That answer to Our feet - So miserable a sound - at first - Nor even now - so sweet - As plashing in the Pools - When Memory was a Boy - But a Demurer Circuit - A Geometric Joy - The Posture of the Key That interrupt the Day To Our Endeavor - Not so real The Check of Liberty - As this Phantasm Steel - Whose features - Day and Night - Are present to us - as Our Own - And as escapeless - quite - The narrow Round - the Stint - The slow exchange of Hope - For something passiver - Content Too steep for lookinp up - The Liberty we knew Avoided - like a Dream - Too wide for any night but Heaven - If That - indeed - redeem - ___ Nature - sometimes sears a Sapling - Sometimes - scalps a Tree - Her Green People recollect it When they do not die - Fainter Leaves - to Further Seasons - Dumbly testify - We - who have the Souls - Die oftener - Not so vitally - ___ 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 - ___ "Why do I love" You, Sir? Because - The Wind does not require the Grass To answer - Wherefore when He pass She cannot keep Her place. Because He knows - and Do not You - And We know not - Enough for Us The Wisdom it be so - The Lightning - never asked an Eye Wherefore it shut - when He was by - Because He knows it cannot speak - And reasons not contained - Of Talk - There be - preferred by Daintier Folk - The Sunrise - Sir - compelleth Me - Because He's Sunrise - and I see - Therefore - Then - I love Thee - ___ The Himmaleh was known to stoop Unto the Daisy low - Transported with Compassion That such a Doll should grow Where Tent by Tent - Her Universe Hung out it's Flags of Snow - ___ We Cover Thee - Sweet Face - Not that We tire of Thee - But that Thyself fatigue of Us - Remember - as Thou go - We follow Thee until Thou notice Us - no more - And then - reluctant - turn away To Con Thee o'er and o'er - And blame the scanty love We were Content to show - Augmented - Sweet - a Hundred fold - If Thou would'st take it - now - ___ Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens - upon - It soars - and shifts - and whirls - And measures with the Clouds In easy - even - dazzling pace - No different the Birds - Except a Wake of Music Accompany their feet - As did the Down emit a Tune - For Extasy - of it ___ A long - long Sleep - A famous - Sleep - That makes no show for Morn - By Stretch of Limb - or stir of Lid - An independent One - Was ever idleness like This? Upon a Bank of Stone To bask the Centuries away - Nor once look up - for Noon? ___ Without this - there is nought - All other Riches be As is the Twitter of a Bird - Heard opposite the Sea - I could not care - to gain A lesser than the Whole - For did not this include themself - As Seams - include the Ball? I wished a way might be My Heart to subdivide - 'Twould magnify - the Gratitude - And not reduce - the Gold - ___ The name - of it - is "Autumn" - The hue - of it - is Blood - An Artery - upon the Hill - A Vein - along the Road - Great Globules - in the Alleys - And Oh, the Shower of Stain - When Winds - upset the Basin - And spill the Scarlet Rain - It sprinkles Bonnets - far below - It gathers ruddy Pools - Then - eddies like a Rose - away - Upon Vermillion Wheels - ___ I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors - Of Chambers as the Cedars - Impregnable of Eye - And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky - Of Visitors - the fairest - For Occupation - This - The spreading wide of narrow Hands To gather Paradise - ___ A Solemn thing within the Soul To feel itself get ripe - And golden hang - while farther up - The Maker's Ladders stop - And in the Orchard far below - You hear a Being - drop - A wonderful - to feel the Sun Still toiling at the cheek You thought was finished - Cool of eye, and critical of Work - He shifts the stem - a little - To give your Core - a look - But solemnest - to know Your chance in Harvest moves A little nearer - Every Sun The Single - to some lives. ___ Whole Gulfs - of Red, and Fleets - of Red - And Crews - of solid Blood - Did place about the West - Tonight - As 'twere specific Ground - And They - appointed Creatures - In Authorized Arrays - Due - promptly - as a Drama - That bows - and disappears - ___ My Garden - like the Beach - Denotes there be - a Sea - That's Summer - Such as These - the Pearls She fetches - such as Me ___ That first Day, when you praised Me, Sweet, And said that I was strong - And could be mighty, if I liked - That Day - the Days among - Glows Central - like a Jewel Between Diverging Golds - The Minor One - that gleamed behind - And Vaster - of the World's. ___ To make One's Toilette - after Death Has made the Toilette cool Of only Taste we cared to please Is difficult, and still - That's easier - than Braid the Hair - And make the Boddice gay - When Eyes that fondled it are wrenched By Decalogues - away - ___ 'Tis good - the looking back on Grief - To re-endure a Day - We thought the monstrous Funeral - Of all conceived Joy - To recollect how Busy Grass Did meddle - one by one - Till all the Grief with Summer - waved And none could see the stone. And though the Wo you have Today Be larger - As the Sea Exceeds it's unremembered Drop - They're Water - equally - ___ I was the slightest in the House - I took the smallest Room - At night, my little Lamp, and Book - And one Geranium - So stationed I could catch the Mint That never ceased to fall - And just my Basket - Let me think - I'm sure That this was all - I never spoke - unless addressed - And then, 'twas brief and low - I could not bear to live - aloud - The Racket shamed me so - And if it had not been so far - And any one I knew Were going - I had often thought How noteless - I could die - ___ You love the Lord - you cannot see - You write Him - every day - A little note - when you awake - And further in the Day, An Ample Letter - How you miss - And would delight to see - But then His House - is but a Step - And mine's - in Heaven - You see. ___ Myself was formed - a Carpenter - An unpretending time My Plane, and I, together wrought Before a Builder came - To measure our attainments - Had we the Art of Boards Sufficiently developed - He'd hire us At Halves - My Tools took Human - Faces - The Bench, where we had toiled - Against the Man, persuaded - We - Temples build - I said - ___ We pray - to Heaven - We prate - of Heaven - Relate - when Neighbors die - At what o'clock to Heaven - they fled - Who saw them - Wherefore fly? Is Heaven a Place - a Sky - a Tree? Location's narrow way is for Ourselves - Unto the Dead There's no Geography - But State - Endowal - Focus - Where - Omnipresence - fly? ___ He fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on - He stuns you by degrees - Prepares your brittle nature For the Etherial Blow By fainter Hammers - further heard - Then nearer - Then so slow Your Breath has time to straighten - Your Brain - to bubble Cool - Deals - One - imperial - Thunderbolt - That scalps your naked Soul - When Winds take Forests in the Paws - The Universe - is still - ___ Just Once! Oh Least Request! Could Adamant - refuse? So small - a Grace - so scanty - put - So agonized Urged? Would not a God of Flint - Be conscious of a sigh - As down his Heaven - echoed faint - "Just Once"! Sweet Deity! ___