Poems, Series 1

VI.

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VI.

IF you were coming in the fall,

I'd brush the summer by

With half a smile and half a spurn,

As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,

I'd wind the months in balls,

And put them each in separate drawers,

Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,

I'd count them on my hand,

Subtracting till my fingers dropped

Into Van Diemen's land.

If certain, when this life was out,

That yours and mine should be,

I'd toss it yonder like a rind,

And taste eternity.

But now, all ignorant of the length

Of time's uncertain wing,

It goads me, like the goblin bee,

That will not state its sting.

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Summary

Preface.

Prelude

I. Life

I. Success.

II.

III. Rouge et Noir.

IV. Rouge Gagne.

V.

VI.

VII. Almost!

VIII.

IX.

X. In a Library.

XI.

XII.

XIII. Exclusion.

XIV. The Secret.

XV. The Lonely House.

XVI.

XVII. Dawn.

XVIII. The Book of Martyrs.

XIX. The Mystery of Pain.

XX.

XXI. A Book.

XXII.

XXIII. Unreturning.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

II. Love

I. Mine.

II. Bequest.

III.

IV. Suspense.

V. Surrender.

VI.

VII. With a Flower.

VIII. Proof.

IX.

X. Transplanted.

XI. The Outlet.

XII. In Vain.

XIII. Renunciation.

XIV. Love's Baptism.

XV. Resurrection.

XVI. Apocalypse.

XVII. The Wife.

XVIII. Apotheosis.

III. Nature

I.

II. May-Flower.

III. Why?

IV.

V.

VI. A Service of Song.

VII.

VIII. Summer's Armies.

IX. The Grass.

X.

XI. Summer Shower.

XII. Psalm of the Day.

XIII. The Sea of Sunset.

XIV. Purple Clover.

XV. The Bee.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX. Two Worlds.

XXI. The Mountain.

XXII. A Day.

XXIII.

XXIV. The Wind.

XXV. Death and Life.

XXVI.

XXVII. Indian Summer.

XXVIII. Autumn.

XXIX. Beclouded.

XXX. The Hemlock.

XXXI.

IV. Time and Eternity

I.

II. Too Late.

III. Astra Castra.

IV.

V.

VI. From the Chrysalis.

VII. Setting Sail.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI. "Troubled About Many Things."

XII. Real.

XIII. The Funeral.

XIV.

XV.

XVI. Refuge.

XVII.

XVIII. Playmates.

XIX.

XX.

XXI. The First Lesson.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV. Dying.

XXVI.

XXVII. The Chariot.

XXVIII.

XXIX. Resurgam.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII. Along the Potomac.

XXXIV.

XXXV. Emancipation.

XXXVI. Lost.

XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

XXXIX.

XL.

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