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,…

 Belshazzar had a letter, —    He never had but one;    Belshazzar’s correspondent    Concluded and begun    In that immortal copy    The conscience of us all    Can read without its glasses    On revelation’s wall.

    As children bid the guest good-night,    And then reluctant turn,    My flowers raise their pretty lips,    Then put their nightgowns on.     As children caper when they wake,    Merry that…

   Angels in the early morning    May be seen the dews among,    Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying:    Do the buds to them belong?     Angels when the sun is hottest    May be…

 Alter? When the hills do.    Falter? When the sun    Question if his glory    Be the perfect one.     Surfeit? When the daffodil    Doth of the dew:    Even as herself, O friend!    I…

After spending a night, Sleepless they go Outside to face The veiled morning lift.   They drag their feet Through the streets, Over the bridges,…

** Klunkerkranich is a bar in Berlin. Sammy and Vera reunited in Berlin in October for one night. They went to a bar with their friend…