I’ll tell you how the sun rose, —    A ribbon at a time.    The steeples swam in amethyst,    The news like squirrels ran.     The hills untied their bonnets,    The…

 Ample make this bed.    Make this bed with awe;    In it wait till judgment break    Excellent and fair.     Be its mattress straight,    Be its pillow round;    Let no sunrise’ yellow…

 A Clock Stopped — Not The Mantel’s;    Geneva’s farthest skill    Can’t put the puppet bowing    That just now dangled still.     An awe came on the trinket!    The figures hunched…

A charm invests a face    Imperfectly beheld, —    The lady dare not lift her veil    For fear it be dispelled.     But peers beyond her mesh,    And wishes, and denies,…

    There is no frigate like a book    To take us lands away,    Nor any coursers like a page    Of prancing poetry.    This traverse may the poorest take    Without oppress of…

    He ate and drank the precious words,    His spirit grew robust;    He knew no more that he was poor,    Nor that his frame was dust.    He danced along the…

  Your riches taught me poverty.    Myself a millionnaire    In little wealths, — as girls could boast, —    Till broad as Buenos Ayre,     You drifted your dominions    A different Peru;    And…

Who robbed the woods,    The trusting woods?    The unsuspecting trees    Brought out their burrs and mosses    His fantasy to please.    He scanned their trinkets, curious,    He grasped, he bore away.    What will…

   Who robbed the woods,    The trusting woods?    The unsuspecting trees    Brought out their burrs and mosses    His fantasy to please.    He scanned their trinkets, curious,    He grasped, he bore away.    What will…

  Whether my bark went down at sea,    Whether she met with gales,    Whether to isles enchanted    She bent her docile sails;     By what mystic mooring    She is held to-day,…