Adrift! A little boat adrift!    And night is coming down!    Will no one guide a little boat    Unto the nearest town?     So sailors say, on yesterday,    Just as the…

 A word is dead    When it is said,    Some say.    I say it just    Begins to live    That day.

 What mystery pervades a well!    The water lives so far,    Like neighbor from another world    Residing in a jar.     The grass does not appear afraid;    I often wonder he    Can…

  A train went through a burial gate,    A bird broke forth and sang,    And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat    Till all the churchyard rang;     And then…

A toad can die of light!    Death is the common right    Of toads and men, —    Of earl and midge    The privilege.    Why swagger then?    The gnat’s supremacy    Is large as thine.

The wind begun to rock the grass    With threatening tunes and low, —    He flung a menace at the earth,    A menace at the sky.     The leaves unhooked…

    A throe upon the features    A hurry in the breath,    An ecstasy of parting    Denominated “Death,” —     An anguish at the mention,    Which, when to patience grown,    I ‘ve known…

A thought went up my mind to-day    That I have had before,    But did not finish, — some way back,    I could not fix the year,     Nor where…

  An awful tempest mashed the air,    The clouds were gaunt and few;    A black, as of a spectre’s cloak,    Hid heaven and earth from view.     The creatures chuckled…

   Could mortal lip divine    The undeveloped freight    Of a delivered syllable,    ‘T would crumble with the weight.