O SWEET everlasting Voices, be still;Go to the guards of the heavenly foldAnd bid them wander obeying your will,Flame under flame, till Time be no more;Have you not heard that our hearts are old,That you call in birds, in wind on the hill,In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore?O sweet everlasting Voices, be still. [...]

It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground,And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less Than I reviled myselfFor entertaining plated wares Upon my silver shelf. – DISENCHANTMENT – It dropped so low in my regard by Emily Dickinson

I HAVE been watching the war map slammed up for advertising in front of the newspaper office.Buttons–red and yellow buttons–blue and black buttons– are shoved back and forth across the map. A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,Climbs a ladder, yells a joke to somebody in the crowd,And then fixes a yellow button one inch [...]

THE splendour falls on castle walls ; And snowy summits old in story: ; The long light shakes across the lakes, ; And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. ; O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, ; And [...]

I’m just a mediocre man Of no high-brow pretence;A comfortable life I plan With care and commonsense.I do the things most people do, I echo what they say;And through my morning paper view The problems of the day. No doubt you think I’m colourless, Profoundly commonplace;And yet I fancy, more or less, I represent the [...]

When Aunt Jane died we hunted round,And money everywhere we found.How much I do not care to say,But no death duties will we pay,And Aunt Jane will be well contentWe bilked the bloody Government. While others spent she loved to save,But couldn’t take it to her grave.While others save we love to spend;She hated us [...]

I CAN’T tell you, but you feel it–Nor can you tell me,Saints with vanished slate and pencilSolve our April day. Sweeter than a vanished FrolicFrom a vanished Green!Swifter than the hoofs of HorsemenRound a ledge of Dream! Modest, let us walk among it,With our faces veiled,As they say polite ArchangelsDo, in meeting God. Not for [...]

I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide,As being past away. -Vain sympathies!For backward, Duddon! as I cast my eyes,I see what was, and is, and will abide;Still glides the Stream, and shall not cease to glide;The Form remains, the Function never dies;While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise,We Men, who in [...]

Musings of a Police Reporter in the Identification Bureau YOU have loved forty women, but you have only one thumb.You have led a hundred secret lives, but you mark only one thumb.You go round the world and fight in a thousand wars and win all the world’s honors, but when you come back home the [...]

THE overtakelessness of thoseWho have accomplished Death,Majestic is to me beyondThe majesties of Earth. The soul her not at HomeInscribes upon the flesh,And takes her fair aerial gaitBeyond the hope of touch. – THE overtakelessness of those by Emily Dickinson