Category Poem

This is a Blossom of the Brain— A small—italic Seed Lodged by Design or Happening The Spirit fructified— Shy as the Wind of his Chambers Swift as a Freshet’s Tongue So of the Flower of the Soul Its process is…

This heart that broke so long— These feet that never flagged— This faith that watched for star in vain, Give gently to the dead— Hound cannot overtake the Hare That fluttered panting, here— Nor any schoolboy rob the nest Tenderness…

This Dust, and its Feature— Accredited—Today— Will in a second Future— Cease to identify— This Mind, and its measure— A too minute Area For its enlarged inspection’s Comparison—appear— This World, and its species A too concluded show For its absorbed…

This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone Is traversing the interval Experience between And most profound experiment Appointed unto Men— How adequate unto itself Its properties…

This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life I mention it to you, When Sunrise through a fissure drop The Day must follow too. If we demur, its gaping sides Disclose as ’twere a Tomb Ourself am lying straight wherein The Favorite…

This Bauble was preferred of Bees— By Butterflies admired At Heavenly—Hopeless Distances— Was justified of Bird— Did Noon—enamel—in Herself Was Summer to a Score Who only knew of Universe— It had created Her.

They won’t frown always—some sweet Day When I forget to tease— They’ll recollect how cold I looked And how I just said “Please.” Then They will hasten to the Door To call the little Girl Who cannot thank Them for…

They shut me up in Prose — As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet — Because they liked me “still” — Still! Could themself have peeped — And seen my Brain — go round — They…

They say that “Time assuages”— Time never did assuage— An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age— Time is a Test of Trouble— But not a Remedy— If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady—

They put Us far apart— As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula— We signified “These see”— They took away our Eyes— They thwarted Us with Guns— “I see Thee” each responded straight Through Telegraphic Signs— With Dungeons—They devised— But…