Poems, Series 3

XXX. Fire.

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XXX. Fire.

ASHES denote that fire was;

Respect the grayest pile

For the departed creature's sake

That hovered there awhile.

Fire exists the first in light;

And then consolidates, --

Only the chemist can disclose

Into what carbonates.

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Summary

Prelude

Preface

I. Life

I. Real Riches.

II. Superiority to Fate.

III. Hope.

IV. Forbidden Fruit. I.

V. Forbidden Fruit. II.

VI. A Word.

VII. To venerate the simple days

VIII. Life's Trades.

IX. Drowning is not so pitiful

X. How still the bells in steeples stand

XI. If the foolish call them 'flowers,'

XII. A Syllable.

XIII. Parting.

XIV. Aspiration.

XV. The Inevitable.

XVI. A Book.

XVII. Who has not found the heaven below

XVIII. A Portrait.

XIX. I Had a Guinea Golden.

XX. Saturday Afternoon.

XXI. Few get enough, -- enough is one

XXII. Upon the gallows hung a wretch

XXIII. The Lost Thought.

XXIV. Reticence.

XXV. With Flowers.

XXVI. The farthest thunder that I heard

XXVII. On the bleakness of my lot

XXVIII. Contrast.

XXIX. Friends.

XXX. Fire.

XXXI. A Man.

XXXII. Ventures.

XXXIII. Griefs.

XXXIV. I have a king who does not speak

XXXV. Disenchantment.

XXXVI. Lost Faith.

XXXVII. Lost Joy.

XXXVIII. I worked for chaff, and earning wheat

XXXIX. Life, and Death, and Giants

XL. Alpine Glow.

XLI. Remembrance.

XLII. To hang our head ostensibly

XLIII. The Brain.

XLIV. The bone that has no marrow

XLV. The Past.

XLVI. To help our bleaker parts

XLVII. What soft, cherubic creatures

XLVIII. Desire.

XLIX. Philosophy.

L. Power.

LI. A modest lot, a fame petite

LII. Is bliss, then, such abyss

LIII. Experience.

LIV. Thanksgiving Day.

LV. Childish Griefs.

II. Love

I. Consecration.

II. Love's Humility.

III. Love.

IV. Satisfied.

V. With a Flower.

VI. Song.

VII. Loyalty.

VIII. To lose thee, sweeter than to gain

IX. Poor little heart!

X. Forgotten.

XI. I've got an arrow here

XII. The Master.

XIII. Heart, we will forget him!

XIV. Father, I bring thee not myself

XV. We outgrow love like other things

XVI. Not with a club the heart is broken

XVII. Who?

XVIII. He touched me, so I live to know

XIX. Dreams.

XX. Numen Lumen.

XXI. Longing.

XXII. Wedded.

III. Nature

I. Nature's Changes.

II. The Tulip.

III. A light exists in spring

IV. The Waking Year.

V. To March.

VI. March.

VII. Dawn.

VIII. A murmur in the trees to note

IX. Morning is the place for dew

X. To my quick ear the leaves conferred

XI. A Rose.

XII. High from the earth I heard a bird

XIII. Cobwebs.

XIV. A Well.

XV. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee

XVI. The Wind.

XVII. A dew sufficed itself

XVIII. The Woodpecker.

XIX. A Snake.

XX. Could I but ride indefinite

XXI. The Moon.

XXII. The Bat.

XXIII. The Balloon.

XXIV. Evening.

XXV. Cocoon.

XXVI. Sunset.

XXVII. Aurora.

XXVIII. The Coming of Night.

XXIX. Aftermath.

IV. Time and Eternity

I. This world is not conclusion

II. We learn in the retreating

III. They say that 'time assuages,'

IV. We cover thee, sweet face

V. Ending.

VI. The stimulus, beyond the grave

VII. Given in marriage unto thee

VIII. That such have died enables us

IX. They won't frown always

X. Immortality.

XI. The distance that the dead have gone

XII. How dare the robins sing

XIII. Death.

XIV. Unwarned.

XV. Each that we lose takes part of us

XVI. Not any higher stands the grave

XVII. Asleep.

XVIII. The Spirit.

XIX. The Monument.

XX. Bless God, he went as soldiers

XXI. Immortal is an ample word

XXII. Where every bird is bold to go

XXIII. The grave my little cottage is

XXIV. This was in the white of the year

XXV. Sweet hours have perished here

XXVI. Me! Come! My dazzled face

XXVII. Invisible.

XXVIII. I wish I knew that woman's name

XXIX. Trying to Forget.

XXX. I felt a funeral in my brain

XXXI. I meant to find her when I came

XXXII. Waiting.

XXXIII. A sickness of this world it most occasions

XXXIV. Superfluous were the sun

XXXV. So proud she was to die

XXXVI. Farewell.

XXXVII. The dying need but little, dear

XXXVIII. Dead.

XXXIX. The soul should always stand ajar

XL. Three weeks passed since I had seen her

XLI. I breathed enough to learn the trick

XLII. I wonder if the sepulchre

XLIII. Joy in Death.

XLIV. If I may have it when it's dead

XLV. Before the ice is in the pools

XLVI. Dying.

XLVII. Adrift! A little boat adrift!

XLVIII. There's been a death in the opposite house

XLIX. We never know we go, -- when we are going

L. The Soul's Storm.

LI. Water is taught by thirst

LII. Thirst.

LIII. A clock stopped -- not the mantel's

LIV. Charlotte Bront 's Grave.

LV. A toad can die of light!

LVI. Far from love the Heavenly Father

LVII. Sleeping.

LVIII. Retrospect.

LIX. Eternity.

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