I took my power in my hand.    And went against the world;    ‘T was not so much as David had,    But I was twice as bold.     I aimed…

    The distance that the dead have gone    Does not at first appear;    Their coming back seems possible    For many an ardent year.     And then, that we have followed…

    The daisy follows soft the sun,    And when his golden walk is done,         Sits shyly at his feet.    He, waking, finds the flower near.    “Wherefore, marauder, art thou…

    I gave myself to him,    And took himself for pay.    The solemn contract of a life    Was ratified this way.     The wealth might disappoint,    Myself a poorer prove    Than this…

    How the old mountains drip with sunset,    And the brake of dun!    How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel    By the wizard sun!     How the old steeples hand…

    Because I could not stop for Death,    He kindly stopped for me;    The carriage held but just ourselves    And Immortality.     We slowly drove, he knew no haste,    And I…

    From cocoon forth a butterfly    As lady from her door    Emerged — a summer afternoon —    Repairing everywhere,     Without design, that I could trace,    Except to stray abroad    On miscellaneous…

    The butterfiy’s assumption-gown,    In chrysoprase apartments hung,        This afternoon put on.     How condescending to descend,    And be of buttercups the friend        In a New England town!

    The bustle in a house    The morning after death    Is solemnest of industries    Enacted upon earth, —     The sweeping up the heart,    And putting love away    We shall not want…

    The brain is wider than the sky,    For, put them side by side,    The one the other will include    With ease, and you beside.     The brain is deeper…