If I should die,    And you should live,    And time should gurgle on,    And morn should beam,    And noon should burn,    As it has usual done;    If birds should build as…

  If I can stop one heart from breaking,    I shall not live in vain;    If I can ease one life the aching,    Or cool one pain,    Or help one…

 I taste a liquor never brewed,    From tankards scooped in pearl;    Not all the vats upon the Rhine    Yield such an alcohol!     Inebriate of air am I,    And debauchee…

  I know a place where summer strives    With such a practised frost,    She each year leads her daisies back,    Recording briefly, “Lost.”     But when the south wind stirs…

 I have no life but this,    To lead it here;    Nor any death, but lest    Dispelled from there;     Nor tie to earths to come,    Nor action new,    Except through this…

  I had no time to hate, because    The grave would hinder me,    And life was not so ample I    Could finish enmity.     Nor had I time to love;…

    I asked no other thing,    No other was denied.    I offered Being for it;    The mighty merchant smiled.     Brazil? He twirled a button,    Without a glance my way:    “But, madam,…

Have you got a brook in your little heart,    Where bashful flowers blow,    And blushing birds go down to drink,    And shadows tremble so?     And nobody knows, so…

  Glee! The great storm is over!    Four have recovered the land;    Forty gone down together    Into the boiling sand.     Ring, for the scant salvation!    Toll, for the bonnie souls,…

   Delight becomes pictorial    When viewed through pain, —    More fair, because impossible    That any gain.     The mountain at a given distance    In amber lies;    Approached, the amber flits a little,…