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PREFACE TO FIRST SERIES PREFACE TO SECOND SERIES PREFACE TO THIRD SERIES This is my letter to the world Part One: Life 1. Success is counted sweetest Part One: Life 2. Our share of night to bear Part One: Life 3. Soul, wilt thou toss again? Part One: Life 4. 'T is so much joy! Part One: Life 5. Glee! The great storm is over! Part One: Life 6. If I can stop one heart from... Part One: Life 7. Within my reach! Part One: Life 8. A wounded deer leaps highest Part One: Life 9. The heart asks pleasure first Part One: Life 10. A precious, mouldering pleasure 't... Part One: Life 11. Much madness is divinest sense Part One: Life 12. I asked no other thing Part One: Life 13. The soul selects her own... Part One: Life 14. Some things that fly there be Part One: Life 15. I know some lonely houses off the... Part One: Life 16. To fight aloud is very brave Part One: Life 17. When night is almost done Part One: Life 18. Read, sweet, how others strove Part One: Life 19. Pain has an element of blank Part One: Life 20. I taste a liquor never brewed Part One: Life 21. He ate and drank the precious... Part One: Life 22. I had no time to hate, because Part One: Life 23. 'T was such a little, little... Part One: Life 24. Whether my bark went down at... Part One: Life 25. Belshazzar had a letter Part One: Life 26. The brain within its groove Part One: Life 27. I'm nobody! Who are you? Part One: Life 28. I bring an unaccustomed wine Part One: Life 29. The nearest dream recedes,... Part One: Life 30. We play at paste Part One: Life 31. I found the phrase to every... Part One: Life 32. Hope is the thing with... Part One: Life 33. Dare you see a soul at the white... Part One: Life 34. Who never lost, are unprepared Part One: Life 35. I can wade grief Part One: Life 36. I never hear the word "escape" Part One: Life 37. For each ecstatic instant Part One: Life 38. Through the straight pass of... Part One: Life 39. I meant to have but modest... Part One: Life 40. The thought beneath so slight a... Part One: Life 41. The soul unto itself Part One: Life 42. Surgeons must be very careful Part One: Life 43. I like to see it lap the miles Part One: Life 44. The show is not the show Part One: Life 45. Delight becomes pictorial Part One: Life 46. A thought went up my mind... Part One: Life 47. Is Heaven a physician? Part One: Life 48. Though I get home how late, how... Part One: Life 49. A poor torn heart, a tattered... Part One: Life 50. I should have been too glad, I... Part One: Life 51. It tossed and tossed Part One: Life 52. Victory comes late Part One: Life 53. God gave a loaf to every bird Part One: Life 54. Experiment to me Part One: Life 55. My country need not change her... Part One: Life 56. Faith is a fine invention Part One: Life 57. Except the heaven had come so... Part One: Life 58. Portraits are to daily faces Part One: Life 59. I took my power in my hand Part One: Life 60. A shady friend for torrid days Part One: Life 61. Each life converges to some... Part One: Life 62. Before I got my eye put out Part One: Life 63. Talk with prudence to a beggar Part One: Life 64. He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him... Part One: Life 65. Good night! which put the candle... Part One: Life 66. When I hoped I feared Part One: Life 67. A deed knocks first at thought Part One: Life 68. Mine enemy is growing old Part One: Life 69. Remorse is memory awake Part One: Life 70. The body grows outside Part One: Life 71. Undue significance a starving man... Part One: Life 72. Heart not so heavy as mine Part One: Life 73. I many times thought peace had... Part One: Life 74. Unto my books so good to turn Part One: Life 75. This merit hath the worst Part One: Life 76. I had been hungry all the... Part One: Life 77. I gained it so Part One: Life 78. To learn the transport by the... Part One: Life 79. I years had been from home Part One: Life 80. Prayer is the little implement Part One: Life 81. I know that he exists Part One: Life 82. Musicians wrestle everywhere Part One: Life 83. Just lost when I was saved Part One: Life 84. 'T is little I could care for... Part One: Life 85. Superiority to fate Part One: Life 86. Hope is a subtle glutton Part One: Life 87. Forbidden fruit a flavor has Part One: Life 88. Heaven is what I cannot reach! Part One: Life 89. A word is dead Part One: Life 90. To venerate the simple days Part One: Life 91. It's such a little thing to... Part One: Life 92. Drowning is not so pitiful Part One: Life 93. How still the bells in steeples... Part One: Life 94. If the foolish call them... Part One: Life 95. Could mortal lip divine Part One: Life 96. My life closed twice before its... Part One: Life 97. We never know how high we are Part One: Life 98. While I was fearing it, it... Part One: Life 99. There is no frigate like a... Part One: Life 100. Who has not found the heaven... Part One: Life 101. A face devoid of love or... Part One: Life 102. I had a guinea golden Part One: Life 103. From all the jails the boys and... Part One: Life 104. Few get enough, - enough is... Part One: Life 105. Upon the gallows hung a... Part One: Life 106. I felt a clearing in my mind Part One: Life 107. The reticent volcano keeps Part One: Life 108. If recollecting were... Part One: Life 109. The farthest thunder that I... Part One: Life 110. On the bleakness of my lot Part One: Life 111. A door just opened on a... Part One: Life 112. Are friends delight or pain? Part One: Life 113. Ashes denote that fire was Part One: Life 114. Fate slew him, but he did not... Part One: Life 115. Finite to fail, but infinite to... Part One: Life 116. I measure every grief I meet Part One: Life 117. I have a king who does not... Part One: Life 118. It dropped so low in my... Part One: Life 119. To lose one's faith surpasses Part One: Life 120. I had a daily bliss Part One: Life 121. I worked for chaff, and earning... Part One: Life 122. Life, and Death, and Giants Part One: Life 123. Our lives are Swiss Part One: Life 124. Remembrance has a rear and... Part One: Life 125. To hang our head ostensibly Part One: Life 126. The brain is wider than the... Part One: Life 127. The bone that has no marrow Part One: Life 128. The past is such a curious... Part One: Life 129. To help our bleaker parts Part One: Life 130. What soft, cherubic creatures Part One: Life 131. Who never wanted, - maddest... Part One: Life 132. It might be easier Part One: Life 133. You cannot put a fire out Part One: Life 134. A modest lot, a fame petite Part One: Life 135. Is bliss, then, such abyss Part One: Life 136. I stepped from plank to plank Part One: Life 137. One day is there of the... Part One: Life 138. Softened by Time's consummate... My nosegays are for captives Part Two: Love 1. Mine by the right of the white... Part Two: Love 2. You left me, sweet, two... Part Two: Love 3. Alter? When the hills do Part Two: Love 4. Elysium is as far as to Part Two: Love 5. Doubt me, my dim companion! Part Two: Love 6. If you were coming in the fall Part Two: Love 7. I hide myself within my flower Part Two: Love 8. That I did always love Part Two: Love 9. Have you got a brook in your little... Part Two: Love 10. As if some little Arctic... Part Two: Love 11. My river runs to thee Part Two: Love 12. I cannot live with you Part Two: Love 13. There came a day at summer's... Part Two: Love 14. I'm ceded, I've stopped being... Part Two: Love 15. 'T was a long parting, but the... Part Two: Love 16. I'm wife; I've finished that Part Two: Love 17. She rose to his requirement,... Part Two: Love 18. Come slowly, Eden! Part Two: Love 19. Of all the souls that stand... Part Two: Love 20. I have no life but this Part Two: Love 21. Your riches taught me poverty Part Two: Love 22. I gave myself to him Part Two: Love 23. "Going to him! Happy letter! Tell... Part Two: Love 24. The way I read a letter 's... Part Two: Love 25. Wild nights! Wild nights! Part Two: Love 26. The night was wide, and furnished... Part Two: Love 27. Did the harebell loose her... Part Two: Love 28. A charm invests a face Part Two: Love 29. The rose did caper on her... Part Two: Love 30. In lands I never saw, they say Part Two: Love 31. The moon is distant from the... Part Two: Love 32. He put the belt around my life Part Two: Love 33. I held a jewel in my fingers Part Two: Love 34. What if I say I shall not... Part Two: Love 35. Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break... Part Two: Love 36. My worthiness is all my doubt Part Two: Love 37. Love is anterior to life Part Two: Love 38. One blessing had I, than the... Part Two: Love 39. When roses cease to bloom,... Part Two: Love 40. Summer for thee grant I may be Part Two: Love 41. Split the lark and you'll find the... Part Two: Love 42. To lose thee, sweeter than to... Part Two: Love 43. Poor little heart! Part Two: Love 44. There is a word Part Two: Love 45. I've got an arrow here Part Two: Love 46. He fumbles at your spirit Part Two: Love 47. Heart, we will forget him! Part Two: Love 48. Father, I bring thee not... Part Two: Love 49. We outgrow love like other... Part Two: Love 50. Not with a club the heart is... Part Two: Love 51. My friend must be a bird Part Two: Love 52. He touched me, so I live to... Part Two: Love 53. Let me not mar that perfect... Part Two: Love 54. I live with him, I see his... Part Two: Love 55. I envy seas whereon he rides Part Two: Love 56. A solemn thing it was, I said It's all I have to bring to-day Part Three: Nature 1. Nature, the gentlest mother Part Three: Nature 2. Will there really be a... Part Three: Nature 3. At half-past three a single... Part Three: Nature 4. The day came slow, till five... Part Three: Nature 5. The sun just touched the... Part Three: Nature 6. The robin is the one Part Three: Nature 7. From cocoon forth a... Part Three: Nature 8. Before you thought of... Part Three: Nature 9. An altered look about the... Part Three: Nature 10. "Whose are the little beds," I... Part Three: Nature 11. Pigmy seraphs gone astray Part Three: Nature 12. To hear an oriole sing Part Three: Nature 13. One of the ones that Midas... Part Three: Nature 14. I dreaded that first robin... Part Three: Nature 15. A route of evanescence Part Three: Nature 16. The skies can't keep their... Part Three: Nature 17. Who robbed the woods Part Three: Nature 18. Two butterflies went out at... Part Three: Nature 19. I started early, took my... Part Three: Nature 20. Arcturus is his other name Part Three: Nature 21. An awful tempest mashed the... Part Three: Nature 22. An everywhere of silver Part Three: Nature 23. A bird came down the walk Part Three: Nature 24. A narrow fellow in the... Part Three: Nature 25. The mushroom is the elf of... Part Three: Nature 26. There came a wind like a... Part Three: Nature 27. A spider sewed at night Part Three: Nature 28. I know a place where summer... Part Three: Nature 29. The one that could repeat the summer... Part Three: Nature 30. The wind tapped like a tired... Part Three: Nature 31. Nature rarer uses yellow Part Three: Nature 32. The leaves, like women,... Part Three: Nature 33. How happy is the little... Part Three: Nature 34. It sounded as if the streets were... Part Three: Nature 35. The rat is the concisest... Part Three: Nature 36. Frequently the woods are... Part Three: Nature 37. The wind begun to rock the... Part Three: Nature 38. South winds jostle them Part Three: Nature 39. Where ships of purple gently... Part Three: Nature 40. She sweeps with many-colored... Part Three: Nature 41. Like mighty footlights burned the... Part Three: Nature 42. Bring me the sunset in a... Part Three: Nature 43. Blazing in gold and quenching in... Part Three: Nature 44. Farther in summer than the... Part Three: Nature 45. As imperceptibly as grief Part Three: Nature 46. It can't be summer, - that got... Part Three: Nature 47. The gentian weaves her... Part Three: Nature 48. God made a little gentian Part Three: Nature 49. Besides the autumn poets... Part Three: Nature 50. It sifts from leaden... Part Three: Nature 51. No brigadier throughout the... Part Three: Nature 52. New feet within my garden... Part Three: Nature 53. Pink, small, and punctual Part Three: Nature 54. The murmur of a bee Part Three: Nature 55. Perhaps you'd like to buy a... Part Three: Nature 56. The pedigree of honey Part Three: Nature 57. Some keep the Sabbath going to... Part Three: Nature 58. The bee is not afraid of... Part Three: Nature 59. Some rainbow coming from the... Part Three: Nature 60. The grass so little has to... Part Three: Nature 61. A little road not made of... Part Three: Nature 62. A drop fell on the apple... Part Three: Nature 63. A something in a summer's... Part Three: Nature 64. This is the land the sunset... Part Three: Nature 65. There is a flower that bees... Part Three: Nature 66. Like trains of cars on tracks of... Part Three: Nature 67. Presentiment is that long shadow on the... Part Three: Nature 68. As children bid the guest... Part Three: Nature 69. Angels in the early... Part Three: Nature 70. So bashful when I spied... Part Three: Nature 71. It makes no difference... Part Three: Nature 72. The mountain sat upon the... Part Three: Nature 73. I'll tell you how the sun... Part Three: Nature 74. The butterfly's... Part Three: Nature 75. Of all the sounds despatched... Part Three: Nature 76. Apparently with no... Part Three: Nature 77. 'T was later when the summer... Part Three: Nature 78. These are the days when birds come... Part Three: Nature 79. The morns are meeker than they... Part Three: Nature 80. The sky is low, the clouds are... Part Three: Nature 81. I think the hemlock likes to... Part Three: Nature 82. There's a certain slant of... Part Three: Nature 83. The springtime's pallid... Part Three: Nature 84. She slept beneath a tree Part Three: Nature 85. A light exists in spring Part Three: Nature 86. A lady red upon the hill Part Three: Nature 87. Dear March, come in! Part Three: Nature 88. We like March, his shoes are... Part Three: Nature 89. Not knowing when the dawn will... Part Three: Nature 90. A murmur in the trees to... Part Three: Nature 91. Morning is the place for... Part Three: Nature 92. To my quick ear the leaves... Part Three: Nature 93. A sepal, petal, and a... Part Three: Nature 94. High from the earth I heard a... Part Three: Nature 95. The spider as an artist Part Three: Nature 96. What mystery pervades a... Part Three: Nature 97. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one... Part Three: Nature 98. It's like the light Part Three: Nature 99. A dew sufficed itself Part Three: Nature 100. His bill an auger is Part Three: Nature 101. Sweet is the swamp with its... Part Three: Nature 102. Could I but ride... Part Three: Nature 103. The moon was but a chin of... Part Three: Nature 104. The bat is dun with wrinkled... Part Three: Nature 105. You've seen balloons set, haven't... Part Three: Nature 106. The cricket sang Part Three: Nature 107. Drab habitation of whom? Part Three: Nature 108. A sloop of amber slips... Part Three: Nature 109. Of bronze and blaze Part Three: Nature 110. How the old mountains drip with... Part Three: Nature 111. The murmuring of bees has... Part Four: Time and Eternity 1. One dignity delays for... Part Four: Time and Eternity 2. Delayed till she had ceased to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 3. Departed to the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 4. Safe in their alabaster... Part Four: Time and Eternity 5. On this long storm the rainbow... Part Four: Time and Eternity 6. My cocoon tightens, colors... Part Four: Time and Eternity 7. Exultation is the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 8. Look back on time with kindly... Part Four: Time and Eternity 9. A train went through a burial... Part Four: Time and Eternity 10. I died for beauty, but was... Part Four: Time and Eternity 11. How many times these low feet... Part Four: Time and Eternity 12. I like a look of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 13. That short, potential... Part Four: Time and Eternity 14. I went to thank... Part Four: Time and Eternity 15. I've seen a dying... Part Four: Time and Eternity 16. The clouds their backs together... Part Four: Time and Eternity 17. I never saw a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 18. God permits industrious... Part Four: Time and Eternity 19. To know just how he suffered would be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 20. The last night that she... Part Four: Time and Eternity 21. Not in this world to see his... Part Four: Time and Eternity 22. The bustle in a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 23. I reason, earth is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 24. Afraid? Of whom am I... Part Four: Time and Eternity 25. The sun kept setting, setting... Part Four: Time and Eternity 26. Two swimmers wrestled on the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 27. Because I could not stop for... Part Four: Time and Eternity 28. She went as quiet as the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 29. At last to be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 30. Except to heaven, she is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 31. Death is a dialogue... Part Four: Time and Eternity 32. It was too late for... Part Four: Time and Eternity 33. When I was small, a woman... Part Four: Time and Eternity 34. The daisy follows soft the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 35. No rack can torture... Part Four: Time and Eternity 36. I lost a world the other... Part Four: Time and Eternity 37. If I shouldn't be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 38. Sleep is supposed to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 39. I shall know why, when time is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 40. I never lost as much but... Part Four: Time and Eternity 41. Let down the bars, O... Part Four: Time and Eternity 42. Going to heaven! Part Four: Time and Eternity 43. At least to pray is left, is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 44. Step lightly on this narrow... Part Four: Time and Eternity 45. Morns like these we... Part Four: Time and Eternity 46. A death-blow is a life-blow to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 47. I read my sentence... Part Four: Time and Eternity 48. I have not told my garden... Part Four: Time and Eternity 49. They dropped like flakes, they dropped like... Part Four: Time and Eternity 50. The only ghost I ever... Part Four: Time and Eternity 51. Some, too fragile for winter... Part Four: Time and Eternity 52. As by the dead we love to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 53. Death sets a thing... Part Four: Time and Eternity 54. I went to heaven Part Four: Time and Eternity 55. Their height in heaven comforts... Part Four: Time and Eternity 56. There is a shame of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 57. Triumph may be of several... Part Four: Time and Eternity 58. Pompless no life can pass... Part Four: Time and Eternity 59. I noticed people... Part Four: Time and Eternity 60. I had no cause to be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 61. If anybody's friend be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 62. Our journey had... Part Four: Time and Eternity 63. Ample make this... Part Four: Time and Eternity 64. On such a night, or such a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 65. Essential oils are... Part Four: Time and Eternity 66. I lived on dread; to those who... Part Four: Time and Eternity 67. If I should die Part Four: Time and Eternity 68. Her final summer was... Part Four: Time and Eternity 69. One need not be a chamber to be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 70. She died, - this was the way she... Part Four: Time and Eternity 71. Wait till the majesty of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 72. Went up a year this... Part Four: Time and Eternity 73. Taken from men this... Part Four: Time and Eternity 74. What inn is this Part Four: Time and Eternity 75. It was not death, for I stood... Part Four: Time and Eternity 76. I should not dare to leave my... Part Four: Time and Eternity 77. Great streets of silence led... Part Four: Time and Eternity 78. A throe upon the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 79. Of tribulation these are... Part Four: Time and Eternity 80. I think just how my shape will... Part Four: Time and Eternity 81. After a hundred... Part Four: Time and Eternity 82. Lay this laurel on the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 83. This world is not... Part Four: Time and Eternity 84. We learn in the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 85. They say that 'time... Part Four: Time and Eternity 86. We cover thee, sweet... Part Four: Time and Eternity 87. That is solemn we have... Part Four: Time and Eternity 88. The stimulus, beyond the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 89. Given in marriage unto... Part Four: Time and Eternity 90. That such have died enables... Part Four: Time and Eternity 91. They won't frown always, - some sweet... Part Four: Time and Eternity 92. It is an honorable... Part Four: Time and Eternity 93. The distance that the dead have... Part Four: Time and Eternity 94. How dare the robins... Part Four: Time and Eternity 95. Death is like the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 96. 'T is sunrise, little maid, hast... Part Four: Time and Eternity 97. Each that we lose takes part of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 98. Not any higher stands the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 99. As far from pity as... Part Four: Time and Eternity 100. 'T is whiter than an Indian... Part Four: Time and Eternity 101. She laid her docile crescent... Part Four: Time and Eternity 102. Bless God, he went as... Part Four: Time and Eternity 103. Immortal is an ample... Part Four: Time and Eternity 104. Where every bird is bold to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 105. The grave my little cottage... Part Four: Time and Eternity 106. This was in the white of the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 107. Sweet hours have perished... Part Four: Time and Eternity 108. Me! Come! My dazzled... Part Four: Time and Eternity 109. From us she wandered now a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 110. I wish I knew that woman's... Part Four: Time and Eternity 111. Bereaved of all, I went... Part Four: Time and Eternity 112. I felt a funeral in my... Part Four: Time and Eternity 113. I meant to find her when I... Part Four: Time and Eternity 114. I sing to use the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 115. A sickness of this world it most... Part Four: Time and Eternity 116. Superfluous were the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 117. So proud she was to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 118. Tie the strings to my life, my... Part Four: Time and Eternity 119. The dying need but little,... Part Four: Time and Eternity 120. There's something quieter than... Part Four: Time and Eternity 121. The soul should always stand... Part Four: Time and Eternity 122. Three weeks passed since I had seen... Part Four: Time and Eternity 123. I breathed enough to learn the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 124. 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SUPERIORITY TO FATE.

Superiority to fate

Is difficult to learn.

'T is not conferred by any,

But possible to earn

A pittance at a time,

Until, to her surprise,

The soul with strict economy

Subsists till Paradise.

PREFACE TO FIRST SERIES PREFACE TO SECOND SERIES PREFACE TO THIRD SERIES This is my letter to the world Part One: Life 1. Success is counted sweetest Part One: Life 2. Our share of night to bear Part One: Life 3. Soul, wilt thou toss again? Part One: Life 4. 'T is so much joy! Part One: Life 5. Glee! The great storm is over! Part One: Life 6. If I can stop one heart from... Part One: Life 7. Within my reach! Part One: Life 8. A wounded deer leaps highest Part One: Life 9. The heart asks pleasure first Part One: Life 10. A precious, mouldering pleasure 't... Part One: Life 11. Much madness is divinest sense Part One: Life 12. I asked no other thing Part One: Life 13. The soul selects her own... Part One: Life 14. Some things that fly there be Part One: Life 15. I know some lonely houses off the... Part One: Life 16. To fight aloud is very brave Part One: Life 17. When night is almost done Part One: Life 18. Read, sweet, how others strove Part One: Life 19. Pain has an element of blank Part One: Life 20. I taste a liquor never brewed Part One: Life 21. He ate and drank the precious... Part One: Life 22. I had no time to hate, because Part One: Life 23. 'T was such a little, little... Part One: Life 24. Whether my bark went down at... Part One: Life 25. Belshazzar had a letter Part One: Life 26. The brain within its groove Part One: Life 27. I'm nobody! Who are you? Part One: Life 28. I bring an unaccustomed wine Part One: Life 29. The nearest dream recedes,... Part One: Life 30. We play at paste Part One: Life 31. I found the phrase to every... Part One: Life 32. Hope is the thing with... Part One: Life 33. Dare you see a soul at the white... Part One: Life 34. Who never lost, are unprepared Part One: Life 35. I can wade grief Part One: Life 36. I never hear the word "escape" Part One: Life 37. For each ecstatic instant Part One: Life 38. Through the straight pass of... Part One: Life 39. I meant to have but modest... Part One: Life 40. The thought beneath so slight a... Part One: Life 41. The soul unto itself Part One: Life 42. Surgeons must be very careful Part One: Life 43. I like to see it lap the miles Part One: Life 44. The show is not the show Part One: Life 45. Delight becomes pictorial Part One: Life 46. A thought went up my mind... Part One: Life 47. Is Heaven a physician? Part One: Life 48. Though I get home how late, how... Part One: Life 49. A poor torn heart, a tattered... Part One: Life 50. I should have been too glad, I... Part One: Life 51. It tossed and tossed Part One: Life 52. Victory comes late Part One: Life 53. God gave a loaf to every bird Part One: Life 54. Experiment to me Part One: Life 55. My country need not change her... Part One: Life 56. Faith is a fine invention Part One: Life 57. Except the heaven had come so... Part One: Life 58. Portraits are to daily faces Part One: Life 59. I took my power in my hand Part One: Life 60. A shady friend for torrid days Part One: Life 61. Each life converges to some... Part One: Life 62. Before I got my eye put out Part One: Life 63. Talk with prudence to a beggar Part One: Life 64. He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him... Part One: Life 65. Good night! which put the candle... Part One: Life 66. When I hoped I feared Part One: Life 67. A deed knocks first at thought Part One: Life 68. Mine enemy is growing old Part One: Life 69. Remorse is memory awake Part One: Life 70. The body grows outside Part One: Life 71. Undue significance a starving man... Part One: Life 72. Heart not so heavy as mine Part One: Life 73. I many times thought peace had... Part One: Life 74. Unto my books so good to turn Part One: Life 75. This merit hath the worst Part One: Life 76. I had been hungry all the... Part One: Life 77. I gained it so Part One: Life 78. To learn the transport by the... Part One: Life 79. I years had been from home Part One: Life 80. Prayer is the little implement Part One: Life 81. I know that he exists Part One: Life 82. Musicians wrestle everywhere Part One: Life 83. Just lost when I was saved Part One: Life 84. 'T is little I could care for... Part One: Life 85. Superiority to fate Part One: Life 86. Hope is a subtle glutton Part One: Life 87. Forbidden fruit a flavor has Part One: Life 88. Heaven is what I cannot reach! Part One: Life 89. A word is dead Part One: Life 90. To venerate the simple days Part One: Life 91. It's such a little thing to... Part One: Life 92. Drowning is not so pitiful Part One: Life 93. How still the bells in steeples... Part One: Life 94. If the foolish call them... Part One: Life 95. Could mortal lip divine Part One: Life 96. My life closed twice before its... Part One: Life 97. We never know how high we are Part One: Life 98. While I was fearing it, it... Part One: Life 99. There is no frigate like a... Part One: Life 100. Who has not found the heaven... Part One: Life 101. A face devoid of love or... Part One: Life 102. I had a guinea golden Part One: Life 103. From all the jails the boys and... Part One: Life 104. Few get enough, - enough is... Part One: Life 105. Upon the gallows hung a... Part One: Life 106. I felt a clearing in my mind Part One: Life 107. The reticent volcano keeps Part One: Life 108. If recollecting were... Part One: Life 109. The farthest thunder that I... Part One: Life 110. On the bleakness of my lot Part One: Life 111. A door just opened on a... Part One: Life 112. Are friends delight or pain? Part One: Life 113. Ashes denote that fire was Part One: Life 114. Fate slew him, but he did not... Part One: Life 115. Finite to fail, but infinite to... Part One: Life 116. I measure every grief I meet Part One: Life 117. I have a king who does not... Part One: Life 118. It dropped so low in my... Part One: Life 119. To lose one's faith surpasses Part One: Life 120. I had a daily bliss Part One: Life 121. I worked for chaff, and earning... Part One: Life 122. Life, and Death, and Giants Part One: Life 123. Our lives are Swiss Part One: Life 124. Remembrance has a rear and... Part One: Life 125. To hang our head ostensibly Part One: Life 126. The brain is wider than the... Part One: Life 127. The bone that has no marrow Part One: Life 128. The past is such a curious... Part One: Life 129. To help our bleaker parts Part One: Life 130. What soft, cherubic creatures Part One: Life 131. Who never wanted, - maddest... Part One: Life 132. It might be easier Part One: Life 133. You cannot put a fire out Part One: Life 134. A modest lot, a fame petite Part One: Life 135. Is bliss, then, such abyss Part One: Life 136. I stepped from plank to plank Part One: Life 137. One day is there of the... Part One: Life 138. Softened by Time's consummate... My nosegays are for captives Part Two: Love 1. Mine by the right of the white... Part Two: Love 2. You left me, sweet, two... Part Two: Love 3. Alter? When the hills do Part Two: Love 4. Elysium is as far as to Part Two: Love 5. Doubt me, my dim companion! Part Two: Love 6. If you were coming in the fall Part Two: Love 7. I hide myself within my flower Part Two: Love 8. That I did always love Part Two: Love 9. Have you got a brook in your little... Part Two: Love 10. As if some little Arctic... Part Two: Love 11. My river runs to thee Part Two: Love 12. I cannot live with you Part Two: Love 13. There came a day at summer's... Part Two: Love 14. I'm ceded, I've stopped being... Part Two: Love 15. 'T was a long parting, but the... Part Two: Love 16. I'm wife; I've finished that Part Two: Love 17. She rose to his requirement,... Part Two: Love 18. Come slowly, Eden! Part Two: Love 19. Of all the souls that stand... Part Two: Love 20. I have no life but this Part Two: Love 21. Your riches taught me poverty Part Two: Love 22. I gave myself to him Part Two: Love 23. "Going to him! Happy letter! Tell... Part Two: Love 24. The way I read a letter 's... Part Two: Love 25. Wild nights! Wild nights! Part Two: Love 26. The night was wide, and furnished... Part Two: Love 27. Did the harebell loose her... Part Two: Love 28. A charm invests a face Part Two: Love 29. The rose did caper on her... Part Two: Love 30. In lands I never saw, they say Part Two: Love 31. The moon is distant from the... Part Two: Love 32. He put the belt around my life Part Two: Love 33. I held a jewel in my fingers Part Two: Love 34. What if I say I shall not... Part Two: Love 35. Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break... Part Two: Love 36. My worthiness is all my doubt Part Two: Love 37. Love is anterior to life Part Two: Love 38. One blessing had I, than the... Part Two: Love 39. When roses cease to bloom,... Part Two: Love 40. Summer for thee grant I may be Part Two: Love 41. Split the lark and you'll find the... Part Two: Love 42. To lose thee, sweeter than to... Part Two: Love 43. Poor little heart! Part Two: Love 44. There is a word Part Two: Love 45. I've got an arrow here Part Two: Love 46. He fumbles at your spirit Part Two: Love 47. Heart, we will forget him! Part Two: Love 48. Father, I bring thee not... Part Two: Love 49. We outgrow love like other... Part Two: Love 50. Not with a club the heart is... Part Two: Love 51. My friend must be a bird Part Two: Love 52. He touched me, so I live to... Part Two: Love 53. Let me not mar that perfect... Part Two: Love 54. I live with him, I see his... Part Two: Love 55. I envy seas whereon he rides Part Two: Love 56. A solemn thing it was, I said It's all I have to bring to-day Part Three: Nature 1. Nature, the gentlest mother Part Three: Nature 2. Will there really be a... Part Three: Nature 3. At half-past three a single... Part Three: Nature 4. The day came slow, till five... Part Three: Nature 5. The sun just touched the... Part Three: Nature 6. The robin is the one Part Three: Nature 7. From cocoon forth a... Part Three: Nature 8. Before you thought of... Part Three: Nature 9. An altered look about the... Part Three: Nature 10. "Whose are the little beds," I... Part Three: Nature 11. Pigmy seraphs gone astray Part Three: Nature 12. To hear an oriole sing Part Three: Nature 13. One of the ones that Midas... Part Three: Nature 14. I dreaded that first robin... Part Three: Nature 15. A route of evanescence Part Three: Nature 16. The skies can't keep their... Part Three: Nature 17. Who robbed the woods Part Three: Nature 18. Two butterflies went out at... Part Three: Nature 19. I started early, took my... Part Three: Nature 20. Arcturus is his other name Part Three: Nature 21. An awful tempest mashed the... Part Three: Nature 22. An everywhere of silver Part Three: Nature 23. A bird came down the walk Part Three: Nature 24. A narrow fellow in the... Part Three: Nature 25. The mushroom is the elf of... Part Three: Nature 26. There came a wind like a... Part Three: Nature 27. A spider sewed at night Part Three: Nature 28. I know a place where summer... Part Three: Nature 29. The one that could repeat the summer... Part Three: Nature 30. The wind tapped like a tired... Part Three: Nature 31. Nature rarer uses yellow Part Three: Nature 32. The leaves, like women,... Part Three: Nature 33. How happy is the little... Part Three: Nature 34. It sounded as if the streets were... Part Three: Nature 35. The rat is the concisest... Part Three: Nature 36. Frequently the woods are... Part Three: Nature 37. The wind begun to rock the... Part Three: Nature 38. South winds jostle them Part Three: Nature 39. Where ships of purple gently... Part Three: Nature 40. She sweeps with many-colored... Part Three: Nature 41. Like mighty footlights burned the... Part Three: Nature 42. Bring me the sunset in a... Part Three: Nature 43. Blazing in gold and quenching in... Part Three: Nature 44. Farther in summer than the... Part Three: Nature 45. As imperceptibly as grief Part Three: Nature 46. It can't be summer, - that got... Part Three: Nature 47. The gentian weaves her... Part Three: Nature 48. God made a little gentian Part Three: Nature 49. Besides the autumn poets... Part Three: Nature 50. It sifts from leaden... Part Three: Nature 51. No brigadier throughout the... Part Three: Nature 52. New feet within my garden... Part Three: Nature 53. Pink, small, and punctual Part Three: Nature 54. The murmur of a bee Part Three: Nature 55. Perhaps you'd like to buy a... Part Three: Nature 56. The pedigree of honey Part Three: Nature 57. Some keep the Sabbath going to... Part Three: Nature 58. The bee is not afraid of... Part Three: Nature 59. Some rainbow coming from the... Part Three: Nature 60. The grass so little has to... Part Three: Nature 61. A little road not made of... Part Three: Nature 62. A drop fell on the apple... Part Three: Nature 63. A something in a summer's... Part Three: Nature 64. This is the land the sunset... Part Three: Nature 65. There is a flower that bees... Part Three: Nature 66. Like trains of cars on tracks of... Part Three: Nature 67. Presentiment is that long shadow on the... Part Three: Nature 68. As children bid the guest... Part Three: Nature 69. Angels in the early... Part Three: Nature 70. So bashful when I spied... Part Three: Nature 71. It makes no difference... Part Three: Nature 72. The mountain sat upon the... Part Three: Nature 73. I'll tell you how the sun... Part Three: Nature 74. The butterfly's... Part Three: Nature 75. Of all the sounds despatched... Part Three: Nature 76. Apparently with no... Part Three: Nature 77. 'T was later when the summer... Part Three: Nature 78. These are the days when birds come... Part Three: Nature 79. The morns are meeker than they... Part Three: Nature 80. The sky is low, the clouds are... Part Three: Nature 81. I think the hemlock likes to... Part Three: Nature 82. There's a certain slant of... Part Three: Nature 83. The springtime's pallid... Part Three: Nature 84. She slept beneath a tree Part Three: Nature 85. A light exists in spring Part Three: Nature 86. A lady red upon the hill Part Three: Nature 87. Dear March, come in! Part Three: Nature 88. We like March, his shoes are... Part Three: Nature 89. Not knowing when the dawn will... Part Three: Nature 90. A murmur in the trees to... Part Three: Nature 91. Morning is the place for... Part Three: Nature 92. To my quick ear the leaves... Part Three: Nature 93. A sepal, petal, and a... Part Three: Nature 94. High from the earth I heard a... Part Three: Nature 95. The spider as an artist Part Three: Nature 96. What mystery pervades a... Part Three: Nature 97. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one... Part Three: Nature 98. It's like the light Part Three: Nature 99. A dew sufficed itself Part Three: Nature 100. His bill an auger is Part Three: Nature 101. Sweet is the swamp with its... Part Three: Nature 102. Could I but ride... Part Three: Nature 103. The moon was but a chin of... Part Three: Nature 104. The bat is dun with wrinkled... Part Three: Nature 105. You've seen balloons set, haven't... Part Three: Nature 106. The cricket sang Part Three: Nature 107. Drab habitation of whom? Part Three: Nature 108. A sloop of amber slips... Part Three: Nature 109. Of bronze and blaze Part Three: Nature 110. How the old mountains drip with... Part Three: Nature 111. The murmuring of bees has... Part Four: Time and Eternity 1. One dignity delays for... Part Four: Time and Eternity 2. Delayed till she had ceased to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 3. Departed to the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 4. Safe in their alabaster... Part Four: Time and Eternity 5. On this long storm the rainbow... Part Four: Time and Eternity 6. My cocoon tightens, colors... Part Four: Time and Eternity 7. Exultation is the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 8. Look back on time with kindly... Part Four: Time and Eternity 9. A train went through a burial... Part Four: Time and Eternity 10. I died for beauty, but was... Part Four: Time and Eternity 11. How many times these low feet... Part Four: Time and Eternity 12. I like a look of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 13. That short, potential... Part Four: Time and Eternity 14. I went to thank... Part Four: Time and Eternity 15. I've seen a dying... Part Four: Time and Eternity 16. The clouds their backs together... Part Four: Time and Eternity 17. I never saw a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 18. God permits industrious... Part Four: Time and Eternity 19. To know just how he suffered would be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 20. The last night that she... Part Four: Time and Eternity 21. Not in this world to see his... Part Four: Time and Eternity 22. The bustle in a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 23. I reason, earth is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 24. Afraid? Of whom am I... Part Four: Time and Eternity 25. The sun kept setting, setting... Part Four: Time and Eternity 26. Two swimmers wrestled on the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 27. Because I could not stop for... Part Four: Time and Eternity 28. She went as quiet as the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 29. At last to be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 30. Except to heaven, she is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 31. Death is a dialogue... Part Four: Time and Eternity 32. It was too late for... Part Four: Time and Eternity 33. When I was small, a woman... Part Four: Time and Eternity 34. The daisy follows soft the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 35. No rack can torture... Part Four: Time and Eternity 36. I lost a world the other... Part Four: Time and Eternity 37. If I shouldn't be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 38. Sleep is supposed to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 39. I shall know why, when time is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 40. I never lost as much but... Part Four: Time and Eternity 41. Let down the bars, O... Part Four: Time and Eternity 42. Going to heaven! Part Four: Time and Eternity 43. At least to pray is left, is... Part Four: Time and Eternity 44. Step lightly on this narrow... Part Four: Time and Eternity 45. Morns like these we... Part Four: Time and Eternity 46. A death-blow is a life-blow to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 47. I read my sentence... Part Four: Time and Eternity 48. I have not told my garden... Part Four: Time and Eternity 49. They dropped like flakes, they dropped like... Part Four: Time and Eternity 50. The only ghost I ever... Part Four: Time and Eternity 51. Some, too fragile for winter... Part Four: Time and Eternity 52. As by the dead we love to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 53. Death sets a thing... Part Four: Time and Eternity 54. I went to heaven Part Four: Time and Eternity 55. Their height in heaven comforts... Part Four: Time and Eternity 56. There is a shame of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 57. Triumph may be of several... Part Four: Time and Eternity 58. Pompless no life can pass... Part Four: Time and Eternity 59. I noticed people... Part Four: Time and Eternity 60. I had no cause to be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 61. If anybody's friend be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 62. Our journey had... Part Four: Time and Eternity 63. Ample make this... Part Four: Time and Eternity 64. On such a night, or such a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 65. Essential oils are... Part Four: Time and Eternity 66. I lived on dread; to those who... Part Four: Time and Eternity 67. If I should die Part Four: Time and Eternity 68. Her final summer was... Part Four: Time and Eternity 69. One need not be a chamber to be... Part Four: Time and Eternity 70. She died, - this was the way she... Part Four: Time and Eternity 71. Wait till the majesty of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 72. Went up a year this... Part Four: Time and Eternity 73. Taken from men this... Part Four: Time and Eternity 74. What inn is this Part Four: Time and Eternity 75. It was not death, for I stood... Part Four: Time and Eternity 76. I should not dare to leave my... Part Four: Time and Eternity 77. Great streets of silence led... Part Four: Time and Eternity 78. A throe upon the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 79. Of tribulation these are... Part Four: Time and Eternity 80. I think just how my shape will... Part Four: Time and Eternity 81. After a hundred... Part Four: Time and Eternity 82. Lay this laurel on the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 83. This world is not... Part Four: Time and Eternity 84. We learn in the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 85. They say that 'time... Part Four: Time and Eternity 86. We cover thee, sweet... Part Four: Time and Eternity 87. That is solemn we have... Part Four: Time and Eternity 88. The stimulus, beyond the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 89. Given in marriage unto... Part Four: Time and Eternity 90. That such have died enables... Part Four: Time and Eternity 91. They won't frown always, - some sweet... Part Four: Time and Eternity 92. It is an honorable... Part Four: Time and Eternity 93. The distance that the dead have... Part Four: Time and Eternity 94. How dare the robins... Part Four: Time and Eternity 95. Death is like the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 96. 'T is sunrise, little maid, hast... Part Four: Time and Eternity 97. Each that we lose takes part of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 98. Not any higher stands the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 99. As far from pity as... Part Four: Time and Eternity 100. 'T is whiter than an Indian... Part Four: Time and Eternity 101. She laid her docile crescent... Part Four: Time and Eternity 102. Bless God, he went as... Part Four: Time and Eternity 103. Immortal is an ample... Part Four: Time and Eternity 104. Where every bird is bold to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 105. The grave my little cottage... Part Four: Time and Eternity 106. This was in the white of the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 107. Sweet hours have perished... Part Four: Time and Eternity 108. Me! Come! My dazzled... Part Four: Time and Eternity 109. From us she wandered now a... Part Four: Time and Eternity 110. I wish I knew that woman's... Part Four: Time and Eternity 111. Bereaved of all, I went... Part Four: Time and Eternity 112. I felt a funeral in my... Part Four: Time and Eternity 113. I meant to find her when I... Part Four: Time and Eternity 114. I sing to use the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 115. A sickness of this world it most... Part Four: Time and Eternity 116. Superfluous were the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 117. So proud she was to... Part Four: Time and Eternity 118. Tie the strings to my life, my... Part Four: Time and Eternity 119. The dying need but little,... Part Four: Time and Eternity 120. There's something quieter than... Part Four: Time and Eternity 121. The soul should always stand... Part Four: Time and Eternity 122. Three weeks passed since I had seen... Part Four: Time and Eternity 123. I breathed enough to learn the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 124. I wonder if the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 125. If tolling bell I ask the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 126. If I may have it when it's... Part Four: Time and Eternity 127. Before the ice is in the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 128. I heard a fly buzz when I... Part Four: Time and Eternity 129. Adrift! A little boat... Part Four: Time and Eternity 130. There's been a death in the opposite... Part Four: Time and Eternity 131. We never know we go, - when we are... Part Four: Time and Eternity 132. It struck me every... Part Four: Time and Eternity 133. Water is taught by... Part Four: Time and Eternity 134. We thirst at first, - 't is Nature's... Part Four: Time and Eternity 135. A clock stopped - not the... Part Four: Time and Eternity 136. All overgrown by cunning... Part Four: Time and Eternity 137. A toad can die of... Part Four: Time and Eternity 138. Far from love the Heavenly... Part Four: Time and Eternity 139. A long, long sleep, a famous... Part Four: Time and Eternity 140. 'T was just this time last year I... Part Four: Time and Eternity 141. On this wondrous... Sources

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