'Tis customary as we partA trinket — to confer —It helps to stimulate the faithWhen Lovers be afar — 'Tis various — as the various taste —Clematis — journeying far —Presents me with a More…
'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 GrassDid meddle — one by one —Till all the Grief More…
'Tis little I — could care for Pearls —Who own the ample sea —Or Brooches — when the Emperor —With Rubies — pelteth me — Or Gold — who am the Prince of Mines —Or Diamonds — when have IA More…
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so —'Tis Living — hurts us more —But Dying — is a different way —A Kind behind the Door — The Southern Custom — of the Bird —That ere the Frosts are due More…
'Tis One by One — the Father counts —And then a Tract betweenSet Cypherless — to teach the EyeThe Value of its Ten — Until the peevish StudentAcquire the Quick of Skill —Then Numerals are More…
'Tis Opposites — entice —Deformed Men — ponder Grace —Bright fires — the Blanketless —The Lost — Day's face — The Blind — esteem it beEnough Estate — to see —The Captive — strangles new More…
'Tis Sunrise — Little Maid — Hast ThouNo Station in the Day?'Twas not thy wont, to hinder so —Retrieve thine industry — 'Tis Noon — My little Maid —Alas — and art thou sleeping yet?The More…
'Tis true — They shut me in the Cold —But then — Themselves were warmAnd could not know the feeling 'twas —Forget it — Lord — of Them — Let not my Witness hinder ThemIn Heavenly esteem More…
'Twas a long Parting — but the timeFor Interview — had Come —Before the Judgment Seat of God —The last — and second time These Fleshless Lovers met —A Heaven in a Gaze —A Heaven of More…
'Twas just this time, last year, I died.I know I heard the Corn,When I was carried by the Farms —It had the Tassels on — I thought how yellow it would look —When Richard went to mill More…
'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,That nearer, every Day,Kept narrowing its boiling WheelUntil the Agony Toyed coolly with the final inchOf your delirious Hem —And you dropt, lost,When More…
'Twas Love — not me —Oh punish — pray —The Real one died for Thee —Just Him — not me — Such Guilt — to love Thee — most!Doom it beyond the Rest —Forgive it — last —'Twas base as Jesus — More…
'Twas such a little — little boat That toddled down the bay!'Twas such a gallant — gallant seaThat beckoned it away! 'Twas such a greedy, greedy waveThat licked it from the Coast —Nor More…
'Twas the old — road — through pain —That unfrequented — one —With many a turn — and thorn —That stops — at Heaven — This — was the Town — she passed —There — where she — rested — last More…
'Twas warm — at first — like Us —Until there crept uponA Chill — like frost upon a Glass —Till all the scene — be gone. The Forehead copied Stone —The Fingers grew too coldTo ache — and More…
'Twould ease — a Butterfly —Elate — a Bee —Thou'rt neither —Neither — thy capacity — But, Blossom, were I,I would rather beThy momentThan a Bee's Eternity — Content of fadingIs enough for More…
"“?”" If you had the choice of two women to wed,(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)And the first from her heels to her dainty headWas charming in every sense of the word:And yet in More…
"And the sins of the fathers shall bevisited upon the heads of the children,even unto the third and fourthgeneration of them that hate me." Well, then I hate thee, unrighteous More…
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