My nosegays are for Captives --Dim -- expectant eyes,Fingers denied the plucking,Patient till Paradise.To such, if they should whisperOf morning and t...
Angels, in the early morningMay be seen the Dews among,Stooping -- plucking -- smiling -- flying --Do the Buds to them belong?Angels, when the sun is ...
Went up a year this evening!I recollect it well!Amid no bells nor bravoesThe bystanders will tell!Cheerful -- as to the village --Tranquil -- as to re...
My friend must be a Bird --Because it flies!Mortal, my friend must be,Because it dies!Barbs has it, like a Bee!Ah, curious friend!Thou puzzlest me!...
So bashful when I spied her!So pretty -- so ashamed!So hidden in her leafletsLest anybody find --So breathless till I passed here --So helpless when I...
Within my reach!I could have touched!I might have chanced that way!Soft sauntered thro' the village --Sauntered as soft away!So unsuspected Violet...
Some things that fly there be --Birds -- Hours -- the Bumblebee --Of these no Elegy.Some things that stay there be --Grief -- Hills -- Eternity --Nor ...
As by the dead we love to sit,Become so wondrous dear --As for the lost we grappleTho' all the rest are here --In broken mathematicsWe estimate ou...
A darting fear -- a pomp -- a tear --A waking on a mornTo find that what one waked for,Inhales the different dawn....
South Winds jostle them --Bumblebees come --Hover -- hesitate --Drink, and are gone --Butterflies pauseOn their passage Cashmere --I -- softly pluckin...