Triumph - may be of several kinds - There's Triumph in the Room When that Old Imperator - Death - By Faith - be overcome - There's Triumph of the finer mind When Truth - affronted long - Advance unmoved - to Her Supreme - Her God - Her only Throng - A Triumph - when Temptation's Bribe Be slowly handed back - One eye upon the Heaven renounced - And One - upon the Rack - Severer Triumph - by Himself Experienced - who pass Acquitted - from that Naked Bar - Jehovah's Countenance - ___ Dont put up my Thread & Needle - I'll begin to Sow When the Birds begin to whistle - Better stitches - so - These were bent - my sight got crooked - When my mind - is plain I'll do seams - a Queen's endeavor Would not blush to own - Hems - too fine for Lady's tracing To the sightless Knot - Tucks - of dainty interspersion - Like a dotted Dot - Leave my Needle in the furrow - Where I put it down - I can make the zigzag stitches Straight - when I am strong - Till then - dreaming I am sowing Fetch the seam I missed - Closer - so I - at my sleeping - Still surmise I stitch - ___ So well that I can live without - I love thee - then How well is that? As well as Jesus? Prove it me That He - loved Men - As I - love thee - ___ At leisure is the Soul That gets a Staggering Blow - The Width of Life - before it spreads Without a thing to do - It begs you give it Work - But just the placing Pins - Or humblest Patchwork - Children do - To still it's noisy Hands - ___ Sweet - safe - Houses - Glad - gay - Houses - Sealed so stately tight - Lids of Steel - on Lids of Marble - Locking Barefeet out - Brooks of Plush - in Banks of Satin Not so softly fall As the laughter - and the whisper - From their People Pearl - No Bald Death - affront their Parlors - No Bold Sickness come To deface their stately Treasures - Anguish - and the Tomb - Hum by - in muffled Coaches - Lest they - wonder Why - Any - for the Press of Smiling - Interrupt - to die - ___ Glee - The great storm is over - Four - have recovered the Land - Forty - gone down together - Into the boiling Sand - Ring - for the scant Salvation - Toll - for the bonnie Souls - Neighbor - and friend - and Bridegroom - Spinning upon the Shoals - How they will tell the Story - When Winter shake the Door - Till the Children urge - But the Forty - Did they - Come back no more? Then a silence - suffuse the Story - And a softness - the Teller's eye - And the Children - no further question - And only the Sea - reply - ___ It makes no difference abroad - The Seasons - fit - the same - The Mornings blossom into Noons - And split their Pods of Flame - Wild flowers - kindle in the Woods - The Brooks slam - all the Day - No Black bird bates His Banjo - For passing Calvary - Auto da Fe - and Judgment - Are nothing to the Bee - His separation from His Rose - To Him - sums Misery - ___ I asked no other thing - No other - was denied - I offered Being - for it - The Mighty Merchant sneered - Brazil? He twirled a Button - Without a glance my way - "But - Madam - is there nothing else - That We can show - Today"? ___ To know just how He suffered - would be dear - To know if any Human eyes were near To whom He could entrust His wavering gaze - Until it settle firm - on Paradise - To know if He was patient - part content - Was Dying as He thought - or different - Was it a pleasant Day to die - And did the Sunshine face His way - What was His furthest mind - Of Home - or God - Or What the Distant say - At News that He ceased Human Nature Such a Day - And Wishes - Had He any - Just His Sigh - accented - Had been legible - to Me - And was He Confident until Ill fluttered out - in Everlasting Well - And if He spoke - What name was Best - What first What One broke off with At the Drowsiest - Was He afraid - or tranquil - Might He know How Conscious Consciousness - could grow - Till Love that was - and Love too best to be - Meet - and the Junction be Eternity ___ It was too late for Man - But early, yet, for God - Creation - impotent to help - But Prayer - remained - Our side - How excellent the Heaven - When Earth - cannot be had - How hospitable - then - the face Of Our Old Neighbor - God - ___ Forever - it composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time - Except for Infiniteness - And Latitude of Home - From this - experienced Here - Remove the Dates - to These - Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years - Without Debate - or Pause - Or Celebrated Days - No different Our Years would be From Anno Dominies - ___ 'Twas a long Parting - but the time For Interview - had Come - Before the Judgment Seat of God - The last - and second time These Fleshless Lovers met - A Heaven in a Gaze - A Heaven of Heavens - the Privilege Of One another's Eyes - No Lifetime - on Them - Appareled as the new Unborn - except They had beheld - Born infiniter - now - Was Bridal - e'er like This? A Paradise - the Host - And Cherubim - and Seraphim - The unobtrusive Guest - ___ Only God - detect the Sorrow - Only God - The Jehovahs - are no Babblers - Unto God - God the Son - confide it - Still secure - God the Spirit's Honor - Just as sure - ___ Like Eyes that looked on Wastes - Incredulous of Ought But Blank - and steady Wilderness - Diversified by Night - Just Infinites of Nought - As far as it could see - So looked the face I looked upon - So looked itself - on Me - I offered it no Help - Because the Cause was Mine - The Misery a Compact As hopeless - as divine - Neither - would be absolved - Neither would be a Queen Without the Other - Therefore - We perish - tho' We reign - ___ A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface - Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace - The Heaven hath a Hell - Itself to signalize - And every sign before the Place - Is Gilt with Sacrifice - ___ I know where Wells grow - Droughtless Wells - Deep dug - for Summer days - Where Mosses go no more away - And Pebble - safely plays - It's made of Fathoms - and a Belt - A Belt of jagged Stone - Inlaid with Emerald - half way down - And Diamonds - jumbled on - It has no Bucket - were I rich A Bucket I would buy - I'm often thirsty - but my lips Are so high up - You see - I read in an Old fashioned Book That People "thirst no more" - The Wells have Buckets to them there - It must mean that - I'm sure - Shall We remember Parching - then? Those Waters sound so grand - I think a little Well - like Mine - Dearer to understand - ___ The Tint I cannot take - is best - The Color too remote That I could show it in Bazaar - A Guinea at a sight - The fine - impalpable Array - That swaggers on the eye Like Cleopatra's Company - Repeated - in the sky - The Moments of Dominion That happen on the Soul And leave it with a Discontent Too exquisite - to tell - The eager look - on Landscapes - As if they just repressed Some Secret - that was pushing Like Chariots - in the Vest - The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know. Their Graspless manners - mock us - Until the Cheated Eye Shuts arrogantly - in the Grave - Another way - to see - ___ A Wife - at Daybreak - I shall be - Sunrise - Hast Thou a Flag for me? At Midnight - I am yet a Maid - How short it takes to make it Bride - Then - Midnight - I have passed from Thee - Unto the East - and Victory. Midnight - Good Night - I hear them Call - The Angels bustle in the Hall - Softly - my Future climbs the Stair - I fumble at my Childhood's Prayer - So soon to be a Child - no more - Eternity - I'm coming - Sir - Master - I've seen the Face - before - ___ Why make it doubt - it hurts it so - So sick - to guess - So strong - to know - So brave - upon it's little Bed To tell the very last They said Unto Itself - and smile - And shake - For that dear - distant - dangerous - sake - But - the Instead - the Pinching fear That Something - it did do - or dare - Offend the Vision - and it flee - And They no more remember me - Nor ever turn to tell me why - Oh, Master, This is Misery - ___ I live with Him - I see His face - I go no more away For Visitor - or Sundown - Death's single privacy The Only One - forestalling Mine - And that - by Right that He Presents a Claim invisible - No wedlock - granted Me - I live with Him - I hear His Voice - I stand alive - Today - To witness to the Certainty Of Immortality - Taught Me - by Time - the lower Way - Conviction - every day - That Life like This - is stopless - Be Judgment - what it may - ___ The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push His Picture - Presumptuous of Your Place - Of This - Could Man deprive Me - Himself - the Heaven excel - Whose invitation - Your's reduced Until it showed too small - ___