Split the lark and you’ll find the music,    Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled,    Scantily dealt to the summer morning,    Saved for your ear when lutes be old….

Love is anterior to life,    Posterior to death,    Initial of creation, and    The exponent of breath.

My worthiness is all my doubt,    His merit all my fear,    Contrasting which, my qualities    Do lowlier appear;     Lest I should insufficient prove    For his beloved need,    The chiefest apprehension    Within…

I’m ceded, I’ve stopped being theirs;    The name they dropped upon my face    With water, in the country church,    Is finished using now,    And they can put it with…

    I lost a world the other day.    Has anybody found?    You’ll know it by the row of stars    Around its forehead bound.     A rich man might not notice…

    To lose one’s faith surpasses    The loss of an estate,    Because estates can be    Replenished, — faith cannot.     Inherited with life,    Belief but once can be;    Annihilate a single clause,    And…

    I had a daily bliss    I half indifferent viewed,    Till sudden I perceived it stir, —    It grew as I pursued,     Till when, around a crag,    It wasted from…

    To lose one’s faith surpasses    The loss of an estate,    Because estates can be    Replenished, — faith cannot.     Inherited with life,    Belief but once can be;    Annihilate a single clause,    And…

    Look back on time with kindly eyes,    He doubtless did his best;    How softly sinks his trembling sun    In human nature’s west!

I envy seas whereon he rides,    I envy spokes of wheels    Of chariots that him convey,    I envy speechless hills     That gaze upon his journey;    How easy all can…