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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers – Untouched by Morning – and untouched by noon – Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection, Rafter of Satin and Roof of Stone –   Grand go the Years, In the Crescent above them…

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down – It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.   It was not Frost, for on my Flesh I felt…

How many times these low feet staggered – Only the soldered mouth can tell – Try – can you stir the awful rivet – Try – can you lift the hasps of steel!   Stroke the cool forehead – hot…

It sifts from Leaden Sieves – It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road –   It makes an even Face Of Mountain, and of Plain – Unbroken Forehead from the East Unto…

The Poets light but Lamps — Themselves — go out — The Wicks they stimulate If vital Light   Inhere as do the Suns — Each Age a Lens Disseminating their Circumference —

Much Madness is divinest Sense – To a discerning Eye – Much Sense – the starkest Madness – ’Tis the Majority In this, as all, prevail – Assent – and you are sane – Demur – you’re straightway dangerous –…

Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality.   We slowly drove- He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For…

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading–treading–till it seemed That Sense was breaking through–   And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum– Kept beating–beating–till I thought My Mind was…

A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,–did you not, His notice sudden is.   The grass divides as with a comb, A spotted shaft is seen; And then it closes at your feet And…

Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise;   As lightning to the children eased With explanation kind, The truth must dazzle gradually Or every man…