Category Poets

Between the form of Life and Life The difference is as big As Liquor at the Lip between And Liquor in the Jug The latter – excellent to keep – But for ecstatic need The corkless is superior – I…

Betrothed to Righteousness might be An Ecstasy discreet But Nature relishes the Pinks Which she was taught to eat –

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician’s mind – His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind –

Belshazzar had a Letter – He never had but one – Belshazzar’s Correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal Copy The Conscience of us all Can read without it’s Glasses On Revelation’s Wall –

Behold this little Bane – The Boon of all alive – As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love – To lack of it is Woe – To own of it is Wound – Not elsewhere…

Bees are Black – with Gilt Surcingles – Buccaneers of Buzz – Ride abroad in ostentation And subsist on Fuzz – Fuzz ordained – not Fuzz contingent – Marrows of the Hill. Jugs – a Universe’s fracture Could not jar…

Because ’twas Riches I could own, Myself had earned it – Me, I knew the Dollars by their names – It feels like Poverty An Earldom out of sight to hold, An Income in the Air, Possession – has a…

Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however accurate, May overlook your Track – Because that Death is final, However first it be, This instant be suspended Above Mortality – Significance that each has lived The…

Because my Brook is fluent I know ’tis dry – Because my Brook is silent It is the Sea – And startled at it’s swelling I try to flee To where the Strong assure me Is “no more Sea” –

Because He loves Her We will pry and see if she is fair What difference is on her Face From Features others wear. It will not harm her magic pace That we so far behind – Her Distances propitiate As…