A Toad, Can Die Of Light -

To See The Summer Sky Is Poetry, Though Never In A Book It Lie— True Poems Flee—

I Do Not Feel I Could Give Up All For Christ, Were I Called To Die.

The Heart Asks Pleasure First, And Then, Excuse From Pain; And Then, Those Little Anodynes That Deaden Suffering; And Then, To Go To Sleep; And Then, If It Should Be The Will Of Its Inquisitor, The Liberty To Die.

My Friends Are My Estate.

I'll Tell You How The Sun Rose, A Ribbon At A Time. The Steeples Swam In Amethyst, The News Like Squirrels Ran. The Hills Untied Their Bonnets, The Bobolinks Begun. Then I Said Softly To Myself, "that Must Have Been The Sun!