Too stiff to bended be,
To joint this Agate were a work –
Outstaring Masonry –
How went the Agile Kernel out
Contusion of the Husk
Nor Rip, nor wrinkle indicate
But just an Asterisk.
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Another problem comes—Larger than mine—Serener—Involving statelier sums.I check my busy pencil,My figures file away.Wherefore, my baffled fingersThey perplexity?
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I—hastened to demandTo fill the awful VacuumYour life had left behind—I worried Nature with my WheelsWhen Hers had ceased to run—When she had put away Her WorkMy own had just begun.I strove to weary Brain and Bone—To harass to fatigueThe glittering Retinue of nerves—Vitality to clogTo some dull comfort Those obtainWho put a Head awayThey…
‘Twas such a little – little boat
‘Twas such a gallant – gallant seaThat beckoned it away!‘Twas such a greedy, greedy waveThat licked it from the Coast –Nor ever guessed the stately sailsMy little craft was lost!
We like March, his shoes are purple,
Makes he mud for dog and peddler,Makes he forest dry;Knows the adder’s tongue his coming,And begets her spot.Stands the sun so close and mightyThat our minds are hot.News is he of all the others;Bold it were to dieWith the blue-birds buccaneeringOn his British sky.
I many times thought Peace had come
As Wrecked Men—deem they sight the Land—At Centre of the Sea—And struggle slacker—but to proveAs hopelessly as I—How many the fictitious Shores—Before the Harbor be—
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‘Tis little I can do—And yet the largest Woman’s HeartCould hold an Arrow—too—And so, instructed by my own,I tenderer, turn Me to.