Judgment is justest

I know it by the numb lookSuch houses have alway.The neighbors rustle in and out,The doctor drives away.A window opens like a pod,Abrupt, mechanically;Somebody flings a mattress out,–The children hurry by;They wonder if It died on that,–I used to when a boy.The minister goes stiffly inAs if the house were his,And he owned all the…

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 necklaces could be!The dust replaced in hoisted roaThe birds jocoser sung;The sunshine threw his hat away,The orchards spangles hung.The breezes brought dejectedAnd bathed them in the glee;The East…

Of unsuspended Suns—Adds poignancy to Winter—The Shivering Fancy turnsTo a fictitious CountryTo palliate a Cold—Not obviated of Degree—Nor erased—of Latitude—

Tho’ Serfs—supply the Oil—It matters not the busy Wick—At her phosphoric toil!The Slave—forgets—to fill—The Lamp—burns golden—on—Unconscious that the oil is out—As that the Slave—is gone.

One mitred Afternoon—None can avoid this purple—None evade this Crown!Coach, it insures, and footmen—Chamber, and state, and throng—Bells, also, in the villageAs we ride grand along!What dignified Attendants!What service when we pause!How loyally at partingTheir hundred hats they raise!Her pomp surpassing ermineWhen simple You, and I,Present our meek escutheonAnd claim the rank to die!

Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you soWhat all the world suspect?An hour, and gay on every treeYour secret, perched in ecstasyDefies imprisonment!An hour in Chrysalis to pass,Then gay above receding grassA Butterfly to go!A moment to interrogate,Then wiser than a ‘Surrogate,’The Universe to know!