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To die — without the Dying And live — without the Life This is the hardest Miracle Propounded to Belief.

To break so vast a Heart Required a Blow as vast — No Zephyr felled this Cedar straight — ‘Twas undeserved Blast —

To be forgot by thee Surpasses Memory Of other minds The Heart cannot forget Unless it contemplate What it declines I was regarded then Raised from oblivion A single time To be remembered what — Worthy to be forgot Is…

Title divine — is mine! The Wife — without the Sign! Acute Degree — conferred on me — Empress of Calvary! Royal — all but the Crown! Betrothed — without the swoon God sends us Women — When you —…

‘Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe — ‘Tis dimmer than a Lace — No stature has it, like a Fog When you approach the place — Nor any voice imply it here Or intimate it there A spirit — how…

‘Tis so much joy!  ‘Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured upon a throw ; Have gained!  Yes!  Hesitated so This side the victory! Life is but life, and death…

‘Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War In which we each were Conqueror And each of us were slain And Centuries ’twill be and more Another Massacre before So modest and so vain — Without a Formula we fought Each was…

‘Tis not the swaying frame we miss, It is the steadfast Heart, That had it beat a thousand years, With Love alone had bent, Its fervor the electric Oar, That bore it through the Tomb, Ourselves, denied the privilege, Consolelessly…

‘Tis my first night beneath the Sun If I should spend it here — Above him is too low a height For his Barometer Who Airs of expectation breathes And takes the Wind at prime — But Distance his Delights…

‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief — To re-endure a Day — We thought the Mighty Funeral — Of All Conceived Joy — To recollect how Busy Grass Did meddle — one by one — Till all the…