Read, sweet, how others strove,    Till we are stouter;    What they renounced,    Till we are less afraid;    How many times they bore    The faithful witness,    Till we are helped,    As if a…

    The bone that has no marrow;    What ultimate for that?    It is not fit for table,    For beggar, or for cat.     A bone has obligations,    A being has the…

    Before you thought of spring,    Except as a surmise,    You see, God bless his suddenness,    A fellow in the skies    Of independent hues,    A little weather-worn,    Inspiriting habiliments    Of indigo and brown….

    No brigadier throughout the year    So civic as the jay.    A neighbor and a warrior too,    With shrill felicity     Pursuing winds that censure us    A February day,    The brother of…

    Like trains of cars on tracks of plush    I hear the level bee:    A jar across the flowers goes,    Their velvet masonry     Withstands until the sweet assault    Their chivalry…

    They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,    Like petals from a rose,    When suddenly across the June    A wind with fingers goes.     They perished in the seamless…

    The bat is dun with wrinkled wings    Like fallow article,    And not a song pervades his lips,    Or none perceptible.     His small umbrella, quaintly halved,    Describing in the air    An…

    You’ve seen balloons set, haven’t you?    So stately they ascend    It is as swans discarded you    For duties diamond.     Their liquid feet go softly out    Upon a sea of…

    That such have died enables us    The tranquiller to die;    That such have lived, certificate    For immortality.

    One day is there of the series    Termed Thanksgiving day,    Celebrated part at table,    Part in memory.     Neither patriarch nor pussy,    I dissect the play;    Seems it, to my hooded…