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Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thoughts which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said.
Poems (1863)
Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?
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All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.
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But two are walking apart forever
And wave their hands for a mute farewell.
Poems (1863)
Let me be only sure; for sooth to tell
The sorest dole is doubt.
Poems (1863)
And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.
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Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.
Poems (1863)
The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.
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To bear, to nurse, to rear,
To watch and then to lose:
To see my bright ones disappear,
Drawn up like morning dews.
Poems (1863)