I’m Nobody!    Who are you?    Are you nobody, too?    Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell!    They ‘d banish us, you know.     How dreary to be somebody!    How…

I worked for chaff, and earning wheat    Was haughty and betrayed.    What right had fields to arbitrate    In matters ratified?     I tasted wheat, — and hated chaff,    And thanked…

I wonder if the sepulchre    Is not a lonesome way,    When men and boys, and larks and June    Go down the fields to hay!

I wish I knew that woman’s name,    So, when she comes this way,    To hold my life, and hold my ears,    For fear I hear her say     She’s…

 I went to thank her,    But she slept;    Her bed a funnelled stone,    With nosegays at the head and foot,    That travellers had thrown,     Who went to thank her;    But…

 I went to heaven, —    ‘T was a small town,    Lit with a ruby,    Lathed with down.    Stiller than the fields    At the full dew,    Beautiful as pictures    No man drew.    People like…

I think just how my shape will rise    When I shall be forgiven,    Till hair and eyes and timid head    Are out of sight, in heaven.     I think…

 I shall know why, when time is over,    And I have ceased to wonder why;    Christ will explain each separate anguish    In the fair schoolroom of the sky….

I reason, earth is short,    And anguish absolute,    And many hurt;    But what of that?     I reason, we could die:    The best vitality    Cannot excel decay;    But what of that?     I…

 I read my sentence steadily,    Reviewed it with my eyes,    To see that I made no mistake    In its extremest clause, —     The date, and manner of the…