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I shall not murmur if at last The ones I loved below Permission have to understand For what I shunned them so – Divulging it would rest my Heart But it would ravage theirs – Why, Katie, Treason has a…

I send you a decrepit flower That nature sent to me At parting – she was going south And I designed to stay – Her motive for the souvenir If sentiment for me Or circumstances prudential Witheld invincibly –

I see thee clearer for the Grave That took thy face between No mirror could illumine thee Like that impassive stone – I know thee better for the act That made thee first unknown The stature of the empty nest…

I saw the wind within her – I knew it blew for me – But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility I watched the fluttering spirit That would not intercede Gibraltar could surrender But not this little maid…

I saw that the Flake was on it But plotted with Time to dispute – “Unchanged” I urged with a candor That cost me my honest Heart – But “you” – she returned with valor Sagacious of my mistake “Have…

I noticed People disappeared When but a little child – Supposed they visited remote Or settled Regions wild – Now know I – They both visited And settled Regions wild – But did because they died A Fact withheld the…

I never hear that one is dead Without the chance of Life Afresh annihilating me That mightiest Belief, Too mighty for the Daily mind That tilling it’s abyss, Had Madness, had it once or, Twice The yawning Consciousness, Beliefs are…

I know of people in the Grave Who would be very glad To know the news I know tonight If they the chance had had ‘Tis this expands the least event And swells the scantest deed My right to walk…

I knew that I had gained And yet I knew not how By Diminution it was not But Discipline unto A Rigor unrelieved Except by the Content Another bear its Duplicate In other Continent.

I held it so tight that I lost it Said the Child of the Butterfly Of many a vaster Capture That is the Elegy –