From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Emerged - a Summer Afternoon - Repairing Everywhere - Without Design - that I could trace Except to stray abroad On miscellaneous Enterprise The Clovers - understood - Her pretty Parasol be seen Contracting in a Field Where Men made Hay - Then struggling hard With an opposing Cloud - Where Parties - Phantom as Herself - To Nowhere - seemed to go In purposeless Circumference - As 'twere a Tropic Show - And notwithstanding Bee - that worked - And Flower - that zealous blew - This Audience of Idleness Disdained them, from the Sky - Till Sundown crept - a steady Tide - And Men that made the Hay - And Afternoon - and Butterfly - Extinguished - in the Sea - ___ Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night Had scarcely deigned to lie - When, stirring, for Belief's delight, My Bride had slipped away - If 'twas a Dream - made solid - just The Heaven to confirm - Or if Myself were dreamed of Her - The power to presume - With Him remain - who unto Me - Gave - even as to All - A Fiction superseding Faith - By so much - as 'twas real - ___ 'Tis Opposites - entice - Deformed Men - ponder Grace - Bright fires - the Blanketless - The Lost - Day's face - The Blind - esteem it be Enough Estate - to see - The Captive - strangles new - For deeming - Beggars - play - To lack - enamor Thee - Tho' the Divinity - Be only Me - ___ The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days - Until the Coronation came - And then - 'twas Otherwise - As Carbon in the Coal And Carbon in the Gem Are One - and yet the former Were dull for Diadem - I rose, and all was plain - But when the Day declined Myself and It, in Majesty Were equally - adorned - The Grace that I - was chose - To Me - surpassed the Crown That was the Witness for the Grace - 'Twas even that 'twas Mine - ___ 'Twas warm - at first - like Us - Until there crept upon A Chill - like frost upon a Glass - Till all the scene - be gone. The Forehead copied Stone - The Fingers grew too cold To ache - and like a Skater's Brook - The busy eyes - congealed - It straightened - that was all - It crowded Cold to Cold - It multiplied indifference - As Pride were all it could - And even when with Cords - 'Twas lowered, like a Weight - It made no Signal, nor demurred, But dropped like Adamant. ___ God is a distant - stately Lover - Woos, as He states us - by His Son - Verily, a Vicarious Courtship - "Miles", and "Priscilla", were such an One - But, lest the Soul - like fair "Priscilla" Choose the Envoy - and spurn the 'Groom - Vouches, with hyperbolic archness - "Miles", and "John Alden" were Synonyme - ___ If any sink, assure that this, now standing - Failed like Themselves - and conscious that it rose - Grew by the Fact, and not the Understanding How Weakness passed - or Force - arose - Tell that the Worst, is easy in a Moment - Dread, but the Whizzing, before the Ball - When the Ball enters, enters Silence - Dying - annuls the power to kill - ___ The Night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single Star - That often as a Cloud it met - Blew out itself - for fear - The Wind pursued the little Bush - And drove away the Leaves November left - then clambered up And fretted in the Eaves - No Squirrel went abroad - A Dog's belated feet Like intermittent Plush, be heard Adown the empty Street - To feel if Blinds be fast - And closer to the fire - Her little Rocking Chair to draw - And recollect the Poor - The Housewife's gentle Task - How pleasanter - said she Unto the Sofa opposite - The Sleet - than May, no Thee - ___ To love thee Year by Year - May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease - However, dear, Forever might be short, I thought to show - And so I pieced it, with a flower, now. ___ Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth - Widths out of the Sun - And look - and shudder, and block your breath - And deem to be alone In such a place, what horror, How Goblin it would be - And fly, as 'twere pursuing you? Then Loneliness - looks so - Did you ever look in a Cannon's face - Between whose Yellow eye - And your's - the Judgment intervened - The Question of "To die" - Extemporizing in your ear Distinct as Satyr's Drums - If you remember, and were saved - It's liker so - it seems - ___ Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail - Assent - and you are sane - Demur - you're straightway dangerous - And handled with a Chain - ___ The Wind - tapped like a tired Man - And like a Host - "Come in" I boldly answered - entered then My Residence within A Rapid - footless Guest - To offer whom a Chair Were as impossible as hand A Sofa to the Air - No Bone had He to bind Him - His Speech was like the Push Of numerous Humming Birds at once From a superior Bush - His Countenance - a Billow - His Fingers, as He passed Let go a music - as of tunes Blown tremulous in Glass - He visited - still flitting - Then like a timid Man Again, He tapped - 'twas flurriedly - And I became alone - ___ To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere - And even when the Snow Heaves Balls of Specks, like Vicious Boy Directly in His Eye - Does not so much as turn His Head - Busy with Majesty - 'Tis His to stimulate the Earth - And magnetize the Sea - And bind Astronomy, in place, Yet Any passing by Would deem Ourselves - the busier As the minutest Bee That rides - emits a Thunder - A Bomb - to justify - ___ Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them - They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer - ___ What care the Dead, for Chanticleer - What care the Dead for Day? 'Tis late your Sunrise vex their face - And Purple Ribaldry - of Morning Pour as blank on them As on the Tier of Wall The Mason builded, yesterday, And equally as cool - What care the Dead for Summer? The Solstice had no Sun Could melt the Snow before their Gate - And knew One Bird a Tune - Could thrill their Mortised Ear Of all the Birds that be - This One - beloved of Mankind Henceforward cherished be - What care the Dead for Winter? Themselves as easy freeze - June Noon - as January Night - As soon the South - her Breeze Of Sycamore - or Cinnamon - Deposit in a Stone And put a Stone to keep it Warm - Give Spices - unto Men - ___ Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forgot she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt? Deny! Did Rose her Bee - For Privilege of Play Or Wile of Butterfly Or Opportunity - Her Lord away? The lady with the Amulet - will fade - The Bee - in Mausoleum laid - Discard his Bride - But longer than the little Rill - That cooled the Forehead of the Hill - While Other - went the Sea to fill - And Other - went to turn the Mill - I'll do thy Will - ___ Undue Significance a starving man attaches To Food - Far off - He sighs - and therefore - Hopeless - And therefore - Good - Partaken - it relieves - indeed - But proves us That Spices fly In the Receipt - It was the Distance - Was Savory - ___ I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl - I read that Foreign Lady - The Dark - felt beautiful - And whether it was noon at night - Or only Heaven - at noon - For very Lunacy of Light I had not power to tell - The Bees - became as Butterflies - The Butterflies - as Swans - Approached - and spurned the narrow Grass - And just the meanest Tunes That Nature murmured to herself To keep herself in Cheer - I took for Giants - practising Titanic Opera - The Days - to Mighty Metres stept - The Homeliest - adorned As if unto a Jubilee 'Twere suddenly confirmed - I could not have defined the change - Conversion of the Mind Like Sanctifying in the Soul - Is witnessed - not explained - 'Twas a Divine Insanity - The Danger to be sane Should I again experience - 'Tis Antidote to turn - To Tomes of Solid Witchcraft - Magicians be asleep - But Magic - hath an Element Like Deity - to keep - ___ 'Tis Customary as we part A Trinket - to confer - It helps to stimulate the faith When Lovers be afar - 'Tis various - as the various taste - Clematis - journeying far - Presents me with a single Curl Of her Electric Hair - ___ The Battle fought between the Soul And No Man - is the One Of all the Battles prevalent - By far the Greater One - No News of it is had abroad - It's Bodiless Campaign Establishes, and terminates - Invisible - Unknown - Nor History - record it - As Legions of a Night The Sunrise scatters - These endure - Enact - and dissipate - ___