Conscious am I in my Chamber - Of a shapeless friend - He doth not attest by Posture - Nor Confirm - by Word - Neither Place - need I present Him - Fitter Courtesy Hospitable intuition Of His Company - Presence - is His furthest license - Neither He to Me Nor Myself to Him - by Accent - Forfeit Probity - Weariness of Him, were quainter Than Monotony Knew a Particle - of Space's Vast Society - Neither if He visit Other - Do He dwell - or Nay - know I - But Instinct esteem Him Immortality - ___ You taught Me Waiting with Myself - Appointment strictly kept - You taught Me fortitude of Fate - This - also - I have learnt - An Altitude of Death, that could No bitterer debar Than Life - had done - before it - Yet - there is a Science more - The Heaven you know - to understand That you be not ashamed Of Me - in Christ's bright Audience Upon the further Hand - ___ Suspense - is Hostiler than Death - Death - tho'soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase - Suspense - does not conclude - But perishes - to live anew - But just anew to die - Annihilation - plated fresh With Immortality - ___ Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day That arise and set about Us - Other Tragedy Perish in the Recitation - This - the best enact When the Audience is scattered And the Boxes shut - "Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet - Had not Shakespeare wrote - Though the "Romeo" left no Record Of his Juliet, It were infinite enacted In the Human Heart - Only Theatre recorded Owner cannot shut - ___ Life, and Death, and Giants - Such as These - are still - Minor - Apparatus - Hopper of the Mill - Beetle at the Candle - Or a Fife's Fame - Maintain - by Accident that they proclaim - ___ Four Trees - upon a solitary Acre - Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action - Maintain - The Sun - upon a Morning meets them - The Wind - No nearer Neighbor - have they - But God - The Acre gives them - Place - They - Him - Attention of Passer by - Of Shadow, or of Squirrel, haply - Or Boy - What Deed is Their's unto the General Nature - What Plan They severally - retard - or further - Unknown - ___ The Grace - Myself - might not obtain - Confer upon My flower - Refracted but a Countenance - For I - inhabit Her - ___ The Birds reported from the South - A News express to Me - A spicy Charge, My little Posts - But I am deaf - Today - The Flowers - appealed - a timid Throng - I reinforced the Door - Go blossom to the Bees - I said - And trouble Me - no More - The Summer Grace, for notice strove - Remote - Her best Array - The Heart - to stimulate the Eye Refused too utterly - At length, a Mourner, like Myself, She drew away austere - Her frosts to ponder - then it was I recollected Her - She suffered Me, for I had mourned - I offered Her no word - My Witness - was the Crape I bore - Her - Witness - was Her Dead - Thenceforward - We - together dwelt - She - never questioned Me - Nor I - Herself - Our Contract A silent Sympathy ___ Remorse - is Memory - awake - Her Parties all astir - A Presence of Departed Acts - At window - and at Door - It's Past - set down before the Soul And lighted with a match - Perusal - to facilitate - Of it's Condensed Despatch - Remorse is cureless - the Disease Not even God - can heal - For 'tis His institution - and The Adequate - of Hell - ___ Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue - The letting go A Presence - for an Expectation - Not now - The putting out of Eyes - Just Sunrise - Lest Day - Day's Great Progenitor - Outvie Renunciation - is the Choosing Against itself - Itself to justify Unto itself - When larger function - Make that appear - Smaller - that Covered Vision - Here - ___ Never for Society He shall seek in vain - Who His own acquaintance Cultivate - Of Men Wiser One may weary - But the Man within Never knew Satiety - Better entertain Than could Border Ballad - Or Biscayan Hymn - Neither introduction Need You - unto Him - ___ I sometimes drop it, for a Quick - The Thought to be alive - Anonymous Delight to know - And Madder - to conceive - Consoles a Wo so monstrous That did it tear all Day, Without an instant's Respite - 'Twould look too far - to Die - Delirium - diverts the Wretch For Whom the Scaffold neighs - The Hammock's motion lulls the Heads So close on Paradise - A Reef - crawled easy from the Sea Eats off the Brittle Line - The Sailor does'nt know the Stroke - Until He's past the Pain - ___ It dropped so low - in my Regard - I heard it hit the Ground - And go to pieces on the Stones At bottom of my mind - Yet blamed the Fate that fractured - less Than I reviled Myself, For entertaining Plated Wares Upon my Silver Shelf - ___ Autumn - overlooked my Knitting - Dyes - said He - have I - Could disparage a Flamingo - Show Me them - said I - Cochineal - I chose - for deeming It resemble Thee - And the little Border - Dusker - For resembling Me - ___ Bloom upon the Mountain stated - Blameless of a name - Efflorescence of a Sunset - Reproduced - the same - Seed had I, my Purple Sowing Should address the Day - Not - a Tropic of a Twilight - Show itself away - Who for tilling - to the Mountain Come - and disappear - Whose be her Renown - or fading - Witness is not here - While I state - the Solemn Petals - Far as North - and East - Far as South - and West expanding - Culminate - in Rest - And the Mountain to the Evening Fit His Countenance - Indicating by no Muscle His Experience - ___ Publication - is the Auction Of the Mind of Man - Poverty - be justifying For so foul a thing Possibly - but We - would rather From Our Garret go White - Unto the White Creator - Than invest - Our Snow - Thought belong to Him who gave it - Then - to Him Who bear It's Corporeal illustration - sell The Royal Air - In the Parcel - Be the Merchant Of the Heavenly Grace - But reduce no Human Spirit To Disgrace of Price - ___ All but Death, Can be Adjusted - Dynasties repaired - Systems - settled in their Sockets - Citadels - dissolved - Wastes of Lives - resown with Colors By Succeeding Springs - Death - unto itself - Exception - Is exempt from Change - ___ Growth of Man - like Growth of Nature - Gravitates within - Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it - Bit it stir - alone - Each - it's difficult Ideal Must achieve - Itself - Through the solitary prowess Of a Silent Life - Effort - is the sole condition - Patience of Itself - Patience of opposing forces - And intact Belief - Looking on - is the Department Of it's Audience - But Transaction - is assisted By no Countenance - ___ My Worthiness is all my Doubt - His Merit - all my fear - Contrasting which, my quality Do lowlier - appear - Lest I should insufficient prove For His beloved Need - The Chiefest Apprehension Upon my thronging Mind - 'Tis true - that Deity to stoop Inherently incline - For nothing higher than Itself Itself can rest upon - So I - the Undivine Abode Of His Elect Content - Conform my Soul - as 'twere a Church, Unto Her Sacrament - ___ So the Eyes accost - and sunder In an Audience - Stamped - occasionally - forever - So may Countenance Entertain - without addressing Countenance of One In a Neighboring Horizon - Gone - as soon as known - ___ My Soul - accused Me - And I quailed - As Tongues of Diamond had reviled The World accused Me - And I smiled - My Soul - that Morning - was My friend - Her favor - is the best Disdain Toward Artifice of Time - or Men - But Her Disdain - 'twere lighter bear A finger of Enamelled Fire - ___