674
The Soul that hath a Guest
Doth seldom go abroad -
Diviner Crowd at Home,
Obliterate the need -
And Courtesy forbids
A Host's departure when
Upon Himself - be visiting
The Mightiest - of Men -
683
The Soul
unto itself
Is an
imperial friend -
Or the most
agonizing Spy -
An Enemy -
could send -
Secure
against its own -
No treason
it can fear -
Itself -
its Sovereign - of itself
The Soul
should stand in Awe -
709
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
Its
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 –
750
Growth
of Man - like Growth of Nature -
Gravitates
within -
Atmosphere,
and Sun endorse it -
Bit it stir
- alone -
Each - its
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 its
Audience -
But
Transaction - is assisted
By no
Countenance -
751
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 -
752
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 -
779
The Service without Hope -
Is tenderest, I think -
Because 'tis unsustained
By stint - Rewarded Work -
Has impetus of Gain -
And impetus of Goal -
There is no Diligence like that
That knows not an Until -
781
To wait an Hour - is long -
If Love be just beyond -
To wait Eternity - is short -
If Love reward the end -
794
A Drop Fell
on the Apple Tree -
Another -
on the Roof -
A Half a
Dozen kissed the Eaves -
And made
the Gables laugh -
A few went
out to help the Brook
That went
to help the Sea -
Myself
Conjectured were they Pearls -
What
Necklace could be -
The Dust
replaced, in Hoisted Roads -
The Birds
jocoser sung -
The
Sunshine threw his Hat away -
The Bushes
- spangles flung -
The Breezes
brought dejected Lutes -
And bathed
them in the Glee -
Then Orient
showed a single Flag,
And signed
the Fete away -
795
Her final
Summer was it -
And yet We
guessed it not -
If tenderer
industriousness
Pervaded
Her, We thought
A further
force of life
Developed
from within -
When Death
lit all the shortness up
It made the
hurry plain -
We wondered
at our blindness
When
nothing was to see
But Her
Carrara Guide post -
At Our
Stupidity -
When duller
than our dullness
The Busy
Darling lay -
So busy was
she - finishing -
So
leisurely - were We -
799
Despair's
advantage is achieved
By
suffering - Despair -
To be
assisted of Reverse
One must
Reverse have bore -
The
Worthiness of Suffering like
The
Worthiness of Death
Is
ascertained by tasting -
As can no
other Mouth
Of Savors -
make us conscious -
As did
ourselves partake -
Affliction
feels impalpable
Until
Ourselves are struck -
1725
I took one
Draught of Life -
I'll tell
you what I paid -
Precisely
an existence -
The market
price, they said.
They
weighed me, Dust by Dust -
They
balanced Film with Film,
Then handed
me my Being's worth -
A single
Dram of Heaven!
1739
Some say
goodnight - at night -
I say
goodnight by day -
Good-bye -
the Going utter me -
Goodnight,
I still reply -
For
parting, that is night,
And
presence, simply dawn -
Itself, the
purple on the height
Denominated morn.
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