Pensive and FalteringPensive and faltering,
The words the Dead I write,
For living are the Dead,
(Haply the only living, only real,
And I the apparition, I the spectre.)
by EmilyDickinsonXXXIXDeedXL When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered…
CANTO IV—Hys Nouryture“Oh, when I was a little Ghost,
A merry time had we!
Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
They gave us for our tea.”“That story is…
by Robert Burns Divine Service In The Kirk Of LamingtonA Grace Before Dinner, ExtemporeThe Keekin'-Glass How daur ye ca' me howlet-face,
Ye blear-e'ed, withered spectre?
Ye…
by EmilyDickinsonXXVXXVIIXXVI I lived on dread; to those who know
The stimulus there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less. As 't were a spur upon the soul,
A fear will urge…
Queries to My Seventieth YearApproaching, nearing, curious,
Thou dim, uncertain spectre—bringest thou life or death?
Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?
Or placid skies…
by EmilyDickinsonOld-FashionedThe SeaA Tempest A Tempest An awful tempest mashed the air,
The clouds were gaunt and few;
A black, as of a spectre's cloak,
Hid heaven and earth from view…
From One Who StaysHow empty seems the town now you are gone!
A wilderness of sad streets, where gaunt walls
Hide nothing to desire; sunshine falls
Eery, distorted, as it long had shone
On…
Night's Mardi GrasEdward J. WheelerNight is the true democracy. When day
Like some great monarch with his train has passed,
In regal pomp and splendor to the last,
The stars troop forth…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To William Shelley
Death
Lines
Published by Mrs. Shelley with the date 'November 5th, 1817,' in "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
1.
That time is dead for ever, child!…
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