No Other can reduce Our Mortal Consequence Like the remembering it be Nought - A Period from hence - But Contemplation for Cotemporaneous Nought Our Mutual Fame - that haply Jehovah - recollect - No Other can exalt Our Mortal Consequence Like the remembering it exist - A Period from hence - Invited from Itself To the Creator's House - To tarry an Eternity - His - shortest Consciousness - ___ Joy to have merited the Pain - To merit the Release - Joy to have perished every step - To Compass Paradise - Pardon - to look upon thy face - With these old fashioned Eyes - Better than new - could be - for that - Though bought in Paradise - Because they looked on thee before - And thou hast looked on them - Prove Me - My Hazel Witnesses The features are the same - So fleet thou wert, when present - So infinite - when gone - An Orient's Apparition - Remanded of the Morn - The Hight I recollect - 'Twas even with the Hills - The Depth upon my Soul was notched - As Floods - on Whites of Wheels - To Haunt - till Time have dropped His last Decade away, And Haunting actualize - to last At least - Eternity - ___ Bound - a Trouble - and Lives will bear it - Circumscription - enables Wo - Still to anticipate - Were no limit - Who were sufficient to Misery? State it the Ages - to a cipher - And it will ache - contented on - Sing, at it's pain, as any Workman - Notching the fall of the Even Sun - ___ On a Columnar Self - How ample to rely In Tumult - or Extremity - How good the Certainty That Lever cannot pry - And Wedge cannot divide Conviction - That Granitic Base - Though None be on our Side - Suffice Us - for a Crowd - Ourself - and Rectitude - And that Assembly - not far off From furthest Spirit - ___ Nature - the Gentlest Mother is, Impatient of no Child - The feeblest - or the waywardest - Her Admonition mild - In Forest - and the Hill - By Traveller - be heard - Restraining Rampant Squirrel - Or too impetuous Bird - How fair Her Conversation - A Summer Afternoon - Her Household - Her Assembly - And when the Sun go down - Her Voice among the Aisles Incite the timid prayer Of the minutest Cricket - The most unworthy Flower - When all the Children sleep - She turns as long away As will suffice to light Her lamps - Then bending from the Sky - With infinite Affection - And infiniter Care - Her Golden finger on Her lip - Wills Silence - Everywhere - ___ No Prisoner be - Where Liberty - Himself - abide with Thee - ___ Good Night! Which put the Candle out? A jealous Zephyr - not a doubt - Ah, friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick The Angels - labored diligent - Extinguished - now - for you! It might - have been the Light House spark - Some Sailor - rowing in the Dark - Had importuned to see! It might - have been the Waning lamp That lit the Drummer from the Camp To purer Reveille! ___ Behind Me - dips Eternity - Before Me - Immortality - Myself - the Term between - Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray, Dissolving into Dawn away, Before the West begin - 'Tis Kingdoms - afterward - they say - In perfect - pauseless Monarchy - Whose Prince - is Son of none - Himself - His Dateless Dynasty - Himself - Himself diversify - In Duplicate divine - 'Tis Miracle before Me - then - 'Tis Miracle behind - between - A Crescent in the Sea - With Midnight to the North of Her - And Midnight to the South of Her - And Maelstrom - in the Sky - ___ She dwelleth in the Ground - Where Daffodils - abide - Her Maker - Her Metropolis - The Universe - Her Maid - To fetch Her Grace - and Hue - And Fairness - and Renown - The Firmament's - To pluck Her - And fetch Her Thee - be mine - ___ Sweet Mountains - Ye tell Me no lie - Never deny Me - Never fly - Those same unvarying Eyes Turn on Me - when I fail - or feign, Or take the Royal names in vain - Their far - slow - Violet Gaze - My Strong Madonnas - Cherish still - The Wayward Nun - beneath the Hill - Whose service - is to You - Her latest Worship - When the Day Fades from the Firmament away - To lift Her Brows on You - ___ It tossed - and tossed - A little Brig I knew - o'ertook by Blast - It spun - and spun - And groped delirious, for Morn - It slipped - and slipped - As One that drunken - stept - It's white foot tripped - Then dropped from sight - Ah, Brig - Good Night To Crew and You - The Ocean's Heart too smooth - too Blue - To break for You - ___ It's easy to invent a Life - God does it - every Day - Creation - but the Gambol Of His Authority - It's easy to efface it - The thrifty Deity Could scarce afford Eternity To Spontaneity - The Perished Patterns murmur - But His Perturbless Plan Proceed - inserting Here - a Sun - There - leaving out a Man - ___ God gave a Loaf to every Bird - But just a Crumb - to Me - I dare not eat it - tho' I starve - My poignant luxury - To own it - touch it - Prove the feat - that made the Pellet mine - Too happy - in my Sparrow's chance - For Ampler Coveting - It might be Famine - all around - I could not miss an Ear - Such Plenty smiles upon my Board - My Garner shows so fair - I wonder how the Rich - may feel - An Indiaman - An Earl - I deem that I - with but a Crumb - Am Sovereign of them all - ___ Where Thou art - that - is Home - Cashmere - or Calvary - the same - Degree - or Shame - I scarce esteem Location's Name - So I may Come - What Thou dost - is Delight - Bondage as Play - be sweet - Imprisonment - Content - And Sentence - Sacrament - Just We two - meet - Where Thou art not - is Wo - Tho' Bands of Spices - row - What Thou dost not - Despair - Tho' Gabriel - praise me - Sir - ___ We thirst at first - 'tis Nature's Act - And later - when we die - A little Water supplicate - Of fingers going by - It intimates the finer want - Whose adequate supply Is that Great Water in the West - Termed Immortality - ___ Through the strait pass of suffering - The Martyrs - even - trod. Their feet - upon Temptation - Their faces - upon God - A stately - shriven - Company - Convulsion - playing round - Harmless - as streaks of meteor - Upon a Planet's Bond - Their faith - the everlasting troth - Their expectation - fair - The Needle - to the North Degree - Wades - so - thro' polar Air! ___ Precious to Me - She still shall be - Though She forget the name I bear - The fashion of the Gown I wear - The very Color of My Hair - So like the Meadows - now - I dared to show a Tress of Their's If haply - She might not despise A Buttercup's Array - I know the Whole - obscures the Part - The fraction - that appeased the Heart Till Number's Empery - Remembered - as the Milliner's flower When Summer's Everlasting Dower - Confronts the dazzled Bee - ___ Dropped into the Ether Acre - Wearing the Sod Gown - Bonnet of Everlasting Laces - Brooch - frozen on - Horses of Blonde - and Coach of Silver - Baggage a strapped Pearl - Journey of Down - and Whip of Diamond - Riding to meet the Earl - ___ Ah, Teneriffe! Retreating Mountain! Purples of Ages - pause for you - Sunset - reviews her Sapphire Regiment - Day - drops you her Red Adieu! Still - Clad in your Mail of ices - Thigh of Granite - and thew - of Steel - Heedless - alike - of pomp - or parting Ah, Teneriffe! I'm kneeling - still - ___ Grief is a Mouse - And chooses Wainscot in the Breast For His Shy House - And baffles quest - Grief is a Thief - quick startled - Pricks His Ear - report to hear Of that Vast Dark - That swept His Being - back - Grief is a Juggler - boldest at the Play - Lest if He flinch - the eye that way Pounce on His Bruises - One - say - or Three - Grief is a Gourmand - spare His luxury - Best Grief is Tongueless - before He'll tell - Burn Him in the Public square - His Ashes - will Possibly - if they refuse - How then know - Since a Rack could'nt coax a syllable - now ___ Let Us play Yesterday - I - the Girl at School - You - and Eternity - the Untold Tale - Easing my famine At my Lexicon - Logarithm - had I - for Drink - 'Twas a dry Wine - Somewhat different - must be - Dreams tint the Sleep - Cunning Reds of Morning Make the Blind - leap - Still at the Egg-life - Chafing the Shell - When you troubled the Ellipse - And the Bird fell - Manacles be dim - they say - To the new Free - Liberty - Commoner - Never could - to me - 'Twas my last gratitude When I slept - at night - 'Twas the first Miracle Let in - with Light - Can the Lark resume the Shell - Easier - for the Sky - Would'nt Bonds hurt more Than Yesterday? Would'nt Dungeons sorer grate On the Man - free - Just long enough to taste - Then - doomed new - God of the Manacle As of the Free - Take not my Liberty Away from Me - ___ Alter! When the Hills do - Falter! When the Sun Question if His Glory Be the Perfect One - Surfeit! When the Daffodil Doth of the Dew - Even as Herself - Sir - I will - of You - ___