Through the straight pass of suffering    The martyrs even trod,    Their feet upon temptation,    Their faces upon God.     A stately, shriven company;    Convulsion playing round,    Harmless as streaks of meteor    Upon…

    The rose did caper on her cheek,    Her bodice rose and fell,    Her pretty speech, like drunken men,    Did stagger pitiful.     Her fingers fumbled at her work, —    Her…

    I felt a clearing in my mind    As if my brain had split;    I tried to match it, seam by seam,    But could not make them fit.     The…

    I held a jewel in my fingers    And went to sleep.    The day was warm, and winds were prosy;    I said: “‘T will keep.”     I woke and chid…

    I know some lonely houses off the road    A robber ‘d like the look of, —    Wooden barred,    And windows hanging low,    Inviting to    A portico,    Where two could creep:    One hand…

    “GOING to him! Happy letter! Tell him —    Tell him the page I did n’t write;    Tell him I only said the syntax,    And left the verb and…

    The last night that she lived,    It was a common night,    Except the dying; this to us    Made nature different.     We noticed smallest things, —    Things overlooked before,    By this…

    Our journey had advanced;    Our feet were almost come    To that odd fork in Being’s road,    Eternity by term.     Our pace took sudden awe,    Our feet reluctant led.    Before were…

    While I was fearing it, it came,    But came with less of fear,    Because that fearing it so long    Had almost made it dear.    There is a fitting a…