The only news I know Is Bulletins all Day From Immortality. The only Shows I see - Tomorrow and Today - Perchance Eternity - The only one I meet Is God - The only Street - Existence - This traversed If other news there be - Or Admirabler Show - I'll tell it You - ___ Wert Thou but ill - that I might show thee How long a Day I could endure Though thine attention stop not on me Nor the least signal, Me assure - Wert Thou but Stranger in ungracious country - And Mine - the Door Thou paused at, for a passing bounty - No More - Accused - wert Thou - and Myself - Tribunal - Convicted - Sentenced - Ermine - not to Me Half the Condition, thy Reverse - to follow - Just to partake - the infamy - The Tenant of the narrow Cottage, wert Thou - Permit to be The Housewife in thy low attendance Contenteth Me - No Service hast Thou, I would not achieve it - To die - or live - The first - Sweet, proved I, ere I saw thee - For Life - be Love - ___ Midsummer, was it, when They died - A full, and perfect time - The Summer closed upon itself In Consummated Bloom - The Corn, her furthest Kernel filled Before the coming Flail - When These - leaned into Perfectness - Through Haze of Burial - ___ The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it - How still - That last Day that I was a Life I recollect it - as well - 'Twas stiller - though the first Was still - 'Twas empty - but the first Was full - This - was my finallest Occasion - But then My tenderer Experiment Toward Men - "Which choose I"? That - I cannot say - "Which choose They"? Question Memory! ___ A nearness to Tremendousness - An Agony procures - Affliction ranges Boundlessness - Vicinity to Laws Contentment's quiet Suburb - Affliction cannot stay In Acres - It's Location Is Illocality - ___ "Unto Me"? I do not know you - Where may be your House? "I am Jesus - Late of Judea - Now - of Paradise" - Wagons - have you - to convey me? This is far from Thence - "Arms of Mine - sufficient Phaeton - Trust Omnipotence" - I am spotted - "I am Pardon" - I am small - "The Least Is esteemed in Heaven the Chiefest - Occupy my House" - ___ Denial - is the only fact Perceived by the Denied - Whose Will - a numb significance - The Day the Heaven died - And all the Earth strove common round - Without Delight, or Beam - What Comfort was it Wisdom - was - The spoiler of Our Home? ___ All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One - All forsook, for just a Stranger's New Accompanying - Grace of Wealth, and Grace of Station Less accounted than An unknown Esteem possessing - Estimate - Who can - Home effaced - Her faces dwindled - Nature - altered small - Sun - if shone - or Storm - if shattered - Overlooked I all - Dropped - my fate - a timid Pebble - In thy bolder Sea - Ask - me - Sweet - if I regret it - Prove Myself - of Thee - ___ I hide myself within my flower That wearing on your breast - You - unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest! ___ Had I not This, or This, I said, Appealing to Myself, In moment of prosperity - Inadequate - were Life - "Thou hast not Me, nor Me" - it said, In Moment of Reverse - "And yet Thou art industrious - No need - hadst Thou - of us -"? My need - was all I had - I said - The need did not reduce - Because the food - exterminate - The hunger - does not cease - But diligence - is sharper - Proportioned to the Chance - To feed upon the Retrograde - Enfeebles - the Advance - ___ Between My Country - and the Others - There is a Sea - But Flowers - negotiate between us - As Ministry. ___ The Admirations - and Contempts - of time - Show justest - through an Open Tomb - The Dying - as it were a Hight Reorganizes Estimate And what We saw not We distinguish clear - And mostly - see not What We saw before - 'Tis Compound Vision - Light - enabling Light - The Finite - furnished With the Infinite - Convex - and Concave Witness - Back - toward Time - And forward - Toward the God of Him - ___ Till Death - is narrow Loving - The scantest Heart extant Will hold you till your privilege Of Finiteness - be spent - But He whose loss procures you Such Destitution that Your Life too abject for itself Thenceforward imitate - Until - Resemblance perfect - Yourself, for His pursuit Delight of Nature - abdicate - Exhibit Love - somewhat - ___ 'Tis Sunrise - Little Maid - Hast Thou No Station in the Day? 'Twas not thy wont, to hinder so - Retrieve thine industry - 'Tis Noon - My little Maid - Alas - and art thou sleeping yet? The Lily - waiting to be Wed - The Bee - Hast thou forgot? My little Maid - 'Tis Night - Alas That Night should be to thee Instead of Morning - Had'st thou broached Thy little Plan to Die - Dissuade thee, if I c'd not, Sweet, I might have aided - thee - ___ Pain - expands the Time - Ages coil within The minute Circumference Of a single Brain - Pain contracts - the Time - Occupied with Shot Gammuts of Eternities Are as they were not - ___ Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance - Grace - to Me - With Summers, and with Winters, grow, Some passing Year - A trait bestow To make Me fairest of the Earth - The Waiting - then - will seem so worth I shall impute with half a pain The blame that I was chosen - then - Time's to anticipate His Gaze - It's first - Delight - and then - Surprise - The turning o'er and o'er my face For Evidence it be the Grace - He left behind One Day - So less He seek Conviction, That - be This - I only must not grow so new That He'll mistake - and ask for me Of me - when first unto the Door I go - to Elsewhere go no more - I only must not change so fair He'll sigh - "The Other - She - is Where"? The Love, tho', will instruct me right I shall be perfect - in His sight - If He perceive the other Truth - Upon an Excellenter Youth - How sweet I shall not lack in Vain - But gain - thro' loss - Through Grief - obtain - The Beauty that reward Him best - The Beauty of Demand - at Rest - ___ He who in Himself believes - Fraud cannot presume - Faith is Constancy's Result - And assumes - from Home - Cannot perish, though it fail Every second time - But defaced Vicariously - For Some Other Shame. ___ Color - Caste - Denomination - These - are Time's Affair - Death's diviner Classifying Does not know they are - As in sleep - all Hue forgotten - Tenets - put behind - Death's large - Democratic fingers Rub away the Brand - If Circassian - He is careless - If He put away Chrysalis of Blonde - or Umber - Equal Butterfly - They emerge from His Obscuring - What Death - knows so well - Our minuter intuitions - Deem unplausible - ___ I make His Crescent fill or lack - His Nature is at Full Or Quarter - as I signify - His Tides - do I control - He holds superior in the Sky Or gropes, at my Command Behind inferior Clouds - or round A Mist's slow Colonnade - But since We hold a Mutual Disc - And front a Mutual Day - Which is the Despot, neither knows - Nor Whose - the Tyranny - ___ Robbed by Death - but that was easy - To the failing Eye I could hold the latest Glowing - Robbed by Liberty For Her Jugular Defences - This, too, I endured - Hint of Glory - it afforded - For the Brave Beloved - Fraud of Distance - Fraud of Danger, Fraud of Death - to bear - It is Bounty - to Suspense's Vague Calamity - Staking our entire Possession On a Hair's result - Then - Seesawing - coolly - on it - Trying if it split - ___ Unfulfilled to Observation - Incomplete - to Eye - But to Faith - a Revolution In Locality - Unto Us - the Suns extinguish - To our Opposite - New Horizons - they embellish - Turning Us - their Night. ___