My Portion is Defeat—today (639)
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- #1Arcturus is his other name (70)
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- #2Heaven has different Signs—to me (575)
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- #3Heaven—is what I cannot reach! (239)
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- #4I want—it pleaded—All its life (731)
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- #5Morning—means ”Milking”—to the Farmer (300)
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- #6A Book
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- #7A Burdock—clawed my Gown (229)
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- #8A Charm invests a face (421)
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- #9A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel’s
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- #10A door just opened on a street
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- #11A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink (566)
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- #12A happy lip—breaks sudden (353)
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- #13A Lady red—amid the Hill (74)
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- #15A little East of Jordan (59)
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- #16A little road not made man
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- #17A loss of something ever felt I (959)
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- #18A Mien to move a Queen (283)
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- #19A Moth the hue of this (841)
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- #20A Murmur in the Trees—to note (416)
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- #21A nearness to Tremendousness (963)
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- #22A Night—there lay the Days between (471)
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- #23A precious—mouldering pleasure (371)
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- #24A Route of Evanescence
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- #25A single Screw of Flesh (263)
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- #26A solemn thing—it was—I said (483)
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- #27A something in a summer’s Day (122)
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- #28A still—Volcano—Life (601)
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- #29A thought went up my mind to-day
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- #30A throe upon the features (71)
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- #31A Tongue—to tell Him I am true! (400)
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- #32A Weight with Needles on the pounds (264)
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- #33A Wife—at daybreak I shall be (461)
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- #34Abraham to Kill Him
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- #35Absence disembodies—so does Death (860)
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- #36I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs (508)
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- #37Ah, Moon—and Star! (240)
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- #38All forgot for recollecting (966)
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- #39Alone, I cannot be (298)
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- #40An English Breeze
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- #41An everywhere of silver
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- #42And this of all my Hopes (913)
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- #43Apparently with no Surprise
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- #44As Children bid the Guest “Good Night” (133)
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- #45At least—to pray—is left—is left (502)
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- #46Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine (1)
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- #47Away from Home are some and I (821)
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- #48Banish Air from Air (854)
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- #49Because the Bee may blameless hum (869)
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- #50Beclouded
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- #51Bee! I’m expecting you! (1035)
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- #52Bereavement in their death to feel (645)
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- #53Best Gains—must have the Losses’ Test (684)
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- #54Best Things dwell out of Sight (998)
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- #55Better—than Music! For I—who heard it (503)
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- #56Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple (228)
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- #57Bloom upon the Mountain—stated (667)
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- #58Bound—a trouble (269)
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- #59Braind within its groove, The
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- #60Chartless
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- #61Conjecturing a Climate (562)
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- #62Could I but ride indefinite (661)
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- #63Could I—then—shut the door (220)
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- #64Could—I do more—for Thee (447)
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- #65Crumbling is not an instant’s Act (997)
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- #66Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? (365)
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- #67Death is potential to that Man (548)
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- #68Death Leaves Us homesick, Who Behind
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- #69Death sets a thing of signigicant
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- #70Delight is as the flight (257)
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- #71Despair’s advantage is achieved (799)
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- #72Did we disobey Him? (267)
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- #73Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s Mouth (590)
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- #74Don’t put up my Thread and Needle (617)
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- #75Doubt Me! My Dim Companion! (275)
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- #76Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day (741)
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- #77Dreams—are well—but Waking’s better (450)
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- #78Dropped into the Ether Acre (665)
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- #79Each Scar I’ll keep for Him (877)
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- #80Elysium is as far as to
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- #81Empty my Heart, of Thee (587)
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- #82Endow the Living—with the Tears (521)
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- #83Exhilaration—is within (383)
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- #84Fairer through Fading—as the Day (938)
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- #85Fame is a bee (1763)
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- #86Fame is the tine that Scholars leave (866)
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- #87Finite—to fail, but infinite to Venture (847)
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- #88First Robin
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- #89Fitter to see Him, I may be (968)
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- #90For Death—or rather (382)
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- #91For largest Woman’s Hearth I knew (309)
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- #92Forever at His side to walk (246)
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- #93Forever—is composed of Nows (624)
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- #94Forget! The lady with the Amulet (438)
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- #95Frequently the wood are pink (6)
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- #96Further in Summer than the Birds (1068)
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- #97Give little Anguish (310)
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- #98Glee—The great storm is over (619)
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- #99God is a distant—stately Lover (357)
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- #100God made a little Gentian (442)
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- #101Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him
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- #102Good night! which put the candle out?
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- #103Had I not This, or This, I said (904)
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- #104He fought like those Who’ve nought to lose (759)
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- #105He fumbles at your Soul (315)
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- #106He put the Belt around my life (273)
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- #107He strained my faith (497)
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- #108Heaven (575)
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- #109Heaven is so far of the Mind (370)
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- #110Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead (649)
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- #111Her—”last Poems” (312)
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- #112His Bill an Auger is (1034)
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- #113His Feet are shod with Gauze (916)
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- #114Home
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- #115How sick—to wait—in any place—but thine (368)
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- #116How the old Mountains drip with Sunset (291)
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- #117I am ashamed—I hide (473)
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- #118I asked no other thing (621)
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- #119I breathed enough to learn the trick
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- #120I Came to buy a smile—today (223)
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- #121I can wade Grief (252)
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- #122I can’t tell you—but you feel it (65)
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- #123I could bring You Jewels—had I a mind to (697)
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- #124I could die—to know (570)
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- #125I cried at Pity—not at Pain (588)
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- #126I cross till I am weary (550)
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- #127I dreaded that first Robin, so (348)
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- #128I found the phrase to every thought
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- #129I gained it so (359)
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- #130I gave myself to Him (580)
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- #131I got so I could take his name (293)
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- #132I had no Cause to be awake (542)
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- #133I had no time to hate, because
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- #134I had not minded—Walls (398)
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- #135I had the Glory—that will do (349)
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- #136I have never seen “Volcanoes” (175)
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- #137I haven’t told my garden yet (50)
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- #138I hide myself within my flower (903)
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- #139I know lives, I could miss (372)
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- #140I know some lonely Houses off the Road (289)
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- #141I know where Wells grow—Droughtless Wells (460)
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- #142I learned—at least—what Home could be (944)
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- #143I live with Him—I see His face (463)
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- #144I lived on dread; to those who know
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- #145I many times thought Peace had come (739)
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- #146I meant to have but modest needs (476)
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- #147I ment to find her when I came (718)
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- #148I never felt at Home—Below (413)
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- #149I never hear the word ‘escape’
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- #150I Never Saw a Moor
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- #151I pay—in Satin Cash (402)
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- #152I play at Riches—to appease (801)
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- #153I prayed, at first, a little Girl (576)
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- #154I read my sentence—steadily (412)
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- #155I rose—because He sank (616)
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- #156I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched (378)
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- #157I see thee better—in the Dark
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- #158I send Two Sunsets (308)
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- #159I should have been too glad, I see (313)
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- #160I showed her Heights she never saw (446)
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- #161I sometimes drop it, for a Quick (708)
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- #162I stepped from plank to plank
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- #163I tend my flowers for thee (339)
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- #164I think I was enchanted (593)
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- #165I think the Hemlock likes to stand (525)
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- #166I think to Live—may be a Bliss (646)
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- #167I took my Power in my Hand (540)
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- #168I watched the Moon around the House (629)
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- #169I went to thank Her (363)
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- #170I would not paint—a picture (505)
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- #171I’ll tell you how the sun rose
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- #172Ideals are the Fairly Oil (983)
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- #173If anybody’s friend be dead (509)
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- #174If Blame be my side—forfeit Me (775)
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- #175If He were living—dare I ask (734)
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- #176If I can stop one heart from breaking
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- #177If I may have it, when it’s dead (577)
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- #178If I shouldn’t be alive (182)
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- #179If I’m lost—now (256)
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- #180If the foolish, call them “flowers” (168)
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- #181If this is “fading” (120)
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- #182If What we could—were what we would (407)
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- #183If your Nerve, deny you
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- #184I’ll clutch—and clutch (427)
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- #185I’ll send the feather from my Hat! (687)
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- #186I’m ”wife”—I’ve finished that
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- #187I’m saying every day (373)
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- #188I’m sorry for the Dead—Today (529)
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- #189I’m the little “Heart’s Ease” (176)
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- #190In This Short Life
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- #191In Winter in my Room (1670)
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- #192Is Bliss then, such Abyss (340)
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- #193It is dead—Find it (417)
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- #194Is it true, dear Sue? (218)
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- #195It always felt to me—a wrong (597)
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- #196It can’t be ”Summer”! (221)
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- #197It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard
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- #198It feels a shame to be Alive (444)
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- #199It knew no Medicine (559)
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- #200It struck me every day
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- #201It tossed—and tossed (723)
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- #202It was given to me by the Gods (454)
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- #203It will be Summer—eventually (342)
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- #204It would never be Common—more—I said (430)
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- #205It’s coming—the postponeless Creature (390)
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- #206It’s easy to invent a Life (724)
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- #207It’s like the light
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- #208It’s such a little thing to weep (189)
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- #209It’s thoughts—and just One Heart
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- #210I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometimes (183)
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- #211I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent (243)
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- #212I’ve none to tell me to but Thee (881)
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- #213I’ve nothing else—to bring, You know (224)
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- #214I’ve seen a Dying Eye (547)
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- #215Joy to have merited the Pain (788)
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- #216Just as He spoke it from his Hands (848)
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- #217Like eyes that looked on Wastes (458)
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- #218Like Flowers, that heard the news of Dews (513)
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- #219Like Some Old fashioned Miracle (302)
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- #220Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
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- #221Love—thou art high (453)
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- #222Me from Myself—to banish (642)
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- #223Me prove it now—Whoever doubt (537)
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- #224Midsummer, was it, when They died (962)
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- #225Mine—by the Right of the White Election! (528)
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- #226More Life—went out—when He went (422)
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- #227Most she touched me by her muteness (760)
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- #228Much Madness is divinest Sense
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- #229My best Acquaintances are those (932)
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- #230My first well Day—since many ill (574)
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- #231My Garden—like the Beach (484)
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- #232My Portion is Defeat—today (639)
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- #233My Reward for Being, was This (343)
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- #234My Soul—accused me—And I quailed (753)
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- #235Nature rarer uses yellow
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- #236Nature—sometimes sears a Sapling (314)
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- #237New feet within my garden go (99)
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- #238No Crowd that has occurred (515)
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- #239No Man can compass a Despair (477)
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- #240No matter—now—Sweet (704)
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- #241No Other can reduce (982)
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- #242No Prisoner be (720)
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- #243No Rack can torture me (384)
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- #244Not ”Revelation”—’tis—that waits (685)
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- #245Not in this world to see his face
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- #246Not that We did, shall be the test (823)
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- #247Of all the Sounds despatched abroad (321)
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- #248Of Being is a Bird (653)
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- #249Of Course—I prayed (376)
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- #250Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe (896)
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- #251Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause? (947)
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- #252On that dear Frame the Years had worn (940)
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- #253Once more, my now bewildered Dove (48)
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- #254One and One—are One (769)
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- #255Our journey had advanced
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- #256Our share of night to bear (113)
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- #257Ourselves were wed one summer—dear (631)
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- #258Over and over, like a Tune (367)
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- #259Pain Has An Element
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- #260Pain has an element of Blank (650)
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- #261Partake as doth the Bee (994)
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- #262Perhaps I Asked Too Large
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- #263Prayer is the little implement (437)
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- #264Precious to Me—She still shall be (727)
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- #265Promise This—When You be Dying (648)
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- #266Rehearsal to Ourselves (379)
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- #267Remorse
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- #268Removed from Accident of Loss (424)
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- #269Renunciation
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- #270Reverse cannot befall (395)
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- #271Savior! I’ve no one else to tell (217)
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- #272Severer Service of myself (786)
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- #273Sexton! My Master’s sleeping here (96)
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- #274She dealt her pretty words like Blades (479)
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- #275She dwelleth in the Ground (671)
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- #276She staked her Feathers—Gained an Arc (798)
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- #277She sweeps with many-colored brooms
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- #278Shells from the Coast mistaking (693)
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- #279She’s happy, with a new Content (535)
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- #280Size circumscribes—it has no room (641)
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- #281So bashful when I spied her! (91)
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- #282So glad we are—a Stranger’d deem (329)
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- #283So proud she was to die
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- #284So the Eyes accost—and sunder (752)
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- #285So well that I can live without (456)
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- #286Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
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- #287Some such Butterfly be seen (541)
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- #288Some—Work for Immortality (406)
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- #289Soto! Explore thyself! (832)
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- #290Soul, Wilt thou toss again? (139)
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- #291Speech’—is a prank of Parliament (688)
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- #292Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music (861)
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- #293Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds (711)
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- #294Sunset at Night—is natural (415)
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- #295Superfluous were the Sun (999)
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- #296Suspense—is Hostiler than Death (705)
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- #297Sweet—safe—Houses (457)
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- #298Sweet—You forgot—but I remembered (523)
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- #299Sweet, to have had them lost (901)
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- #300Take your Heaven further on (388)
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- #301Taking up the fair Ideal (428)
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- #302The Angle of a Landscape (375)
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- #303The Bee is not afraid of me (111)
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- #304The Beggar Lad—dies early (717)
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- #305The Birds reported from the South (743)
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- #306The Black Berry—wears a Thorn in his side
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- #307The Body grows without (578)
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- #308The Brain, within its Groove (556)
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- #309The Child’s faith is new (637)
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- #310The Color of a Queen, is this (776)
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- #311The Color of the Grave is Green (411)
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- #312The cricket sang
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- #313The Day that I was crowned (356)
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- #314The Definition of Beauty is (988)
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- #315The difference between Despair (305)
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- #316The Dust behind I strove to join (992)
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- #317The feet of people walking home (7)
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- #318The Fingers of the Light (1000)
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- #319The first Day’s Night had come (410)
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- #320The Future—never spoke (672)
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- #321The Grace—Myself—might not obtain (707)
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- #322The Grass so little has to do
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- #323The Hollows round His eager Eyes (955)
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- #324The Judge is like the Owl (699)
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- #325The Juggler’s Hat her Country is (330)
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- #326The Lady feeds Her little Bird (941)
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- #327The last Night that She lived (1100)
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- #328The Leaves like Women interchange (987)
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- #329The Malay—took the Pearl (452)
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- #330The Manner of its Death (468)
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- #331The Missing All—prevented Me (985)
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- #332The Morning after Woe (364)
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- #333The Murmur of a Bee (155)
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- #334The Mystery of Pain
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- #335The name—of it—is “Autumn” (656)
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- #336The only ghost I ever saw
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- #337The pedigree of honey
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- #338The power to be true to You (464)
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- #339The Province of the Saved (539)
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- #340The Red—Blaze—is the Morning (469)
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- #341The Robin’s my Criterion for Tune (285)
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- #342The show is not the show
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- #343The Skies can’t keep their secret! (191)
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- #344The Soul has Bandaged moments (512)
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- #345The Soul that hath a Guest (674)
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- #346The Soul’s distinct connection (974)
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- #347The Soul’s Superior instants (306)
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- #348The Spider holds a Silver Ball
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- #349The Sun and Moon must make their haste (871)
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- #350The Sun kept setting—setting—still (692)
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- #351The Test of Love—is Death (573)
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- #352The thought beneath so slight a film
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- #353The Tint I cannot take—is best (627)
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- #354The Truth—is stirless (780)
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- #355The Way I read a Letter’s—this (636)
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- #356The White Heat
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- #357The Wind begun to knead the Grass (824)
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- #358The Wind didn’t come from the Orchard—today (316)
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- #359The wind tapped like a tired man
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- #360The Woodpecker
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- #361The Zeroes—taught us—Phosphorous (689)
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- #362Their Height in Heaven comforts not (696)
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- #363There came a Day at Summer’s full (322)
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- #364There came a Wind like a Bugle
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- #365There is a flower that Bees prefer (380)
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- #366There is a Shame of Nobleness (551)
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- #367There’s something quieter than sleep (45)
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- #368These are the days when Birds come back (130)
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- #369These—saw Visions (758)
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- #370They dropped like flakes
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- #371They leave us with the Infinite (350)
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- #372They won’t frown always—some sweet Day (874)
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- #373This Dust, and its Feature (936)
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- #374This is the land the sunset washes
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- #375This Merit hath the worst (979)
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- #376This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
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- #377This was in the White of the Year (995)
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- #378Those fair—fictitious People (499)
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- #379Through the strait pass of suffering (792)
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- #380Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
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- #381Time feels so vast that were it not (802)
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- #382Tis Anguish grander than Delight (984)
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- #383Tis good—the looking back on Grief (660)
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- #384Tis little I—could care for Pearls (466)
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- #385Tis One by One — the Father counts (545)
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- #386Tis Opposites—entice (355)
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- #387Tis so much joy! ’Tis so much joy! (172)
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- #388Tis Sunrise—Little Maid—Hast Thou (908)
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- #389Tis true—They shut me in the Cold (538)
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- #390To be alive—is Power (677)
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- #391To fight aloud, is very brave (126)
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- #392To fill a Gap (546)
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- #393To lose one’s faith—surpass (377)
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- #394To make One’s Toilette—after Death (485)
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- #395To my quick ear the leaves conferred
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- #396To my small Hearth His fire came (638)
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- #397To offer brave assistance (767)
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- #398To One denied the drink (490)
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- #399To see her is a Picture
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- #400To wait an Hour—is long (781)
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- #401Train
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- #402Triumph—may be of several kinds (455)
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- #403Twas a long Parting—but the time (625)
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- #404Twas Crisis—All the length had passed
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- #405Twas Love—not me (394)
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- #406Twas the old—road—through pain (344)
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- #407Twas warm—at first—like Us (519)
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- #408Twice had Summer her fair Verdure (846)
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- #409Two swimmers wrestled on the spar (201)
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- #410Two—were immortal twice (800)
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- #411Unable are the Loved to die (809)
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- #412Uncertain lease—develops lustre (857)
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- #413Upon Concluded Lives (735)
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- #414Victory comes late (690)
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- #415We don’t cry—Tim and I (196)
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- #416We dream—it is good we are dreaming (531)
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- #417We learned the Whole of Love (568)
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- #418We like march, his shoes are purple
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- #419We met as Sparks—Diverging Flints (958)
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- #420We miss Her, not because We see (993)
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- #421We play at paste
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- #422We pray—to Heaven (489)
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- #423We see—Comparatively (534)
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- #424We talked as Girls do (586)
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- #425We thirst at first—’tis Nature’s Act (726)
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- #426What care the Dead, for Chanticleer (592)
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- #427What shall I do when the Summer troubles (956)
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- #428What Soft—Cherubic Creatures (401)
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- #429What would I give to see his face? (247)
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- #430When Bells stop ringing—Church—begins (633)
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- #431When I have seen the Sun emerge (888)
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- #432When I hoped, I recollect (768)
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- #433When I was small, a Woman died (596)
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- #434When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side (222)
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- #435When One has given up One’s life (853)
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- #436Where I have lost, I softer tread (104)
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- #437Where Thou art—that—is Home (725)
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- #438While Asters (331)
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- #439While it is alive (491)
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- #440Who never lost, are unprepared (73)
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- #441Why make it doubt—it hurts it so (462)
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- #442Will there really be a ”Morning”? (101)
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- #443Within my Garden, rides a Bird (500)
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- #444Would you like summer? Taste of ours (691)
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- #445You cannot put a Fire out (530)
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- #446You know that Portrait in the Moon (504)
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- #447You love the Lord—you cannot see (487)
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- #448You said that I
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- #449You’ll find—it when you try to die (610)
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- #450You’ll know Her—by Her Foot (634)
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- #451You’ll know it—as you know ’tis Noon (420)
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- #452Your Riches—taught me—Poverty (299)
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- #453You’re right (234)
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- #454It’s all I have to bring today
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- #455Besides the Autumn poets sing (131)
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- #456I died for Beauty — but was scarce
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- #457Along The Potomac
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- #458I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)
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- #459A Man may make a Remark (952)
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- #460Two butterflies went out at noon
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My Portion is Defeat—today (639) by Emily Dickinson
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Emily DickinsonMy Portion is Defeat—today (639) Annotated
My Portion is Defeat—today—
A paler luck than Victory—
Less Paeans—fewer Bells—
The Drums don't follow Me—with tunes—
Defeat—a somewhat slower—means—
More Arduous than Balls—
'Tis populous with Bone and stain—
And Men too straight to stoop again—,
And Piles of solid Moan—
And Chips of Blank—in Boyish Eyes—
And scraps of Prayer—
And Death's surprise,
Stamped visible—in Stone—
There's somewhat prouder, over there—
The Trumpets tell it to the Air—
How different Victory
To Him who has it—and the One
Who to have had it, would have been
Contender—to die—