Poems about living

A Darting Fear A Tear

a darting fear a pomp a tear endow the living with the tears then close the valves of her attention the whole of me forever

If He Let Me Lead Him In

so he let me lead him in yet she cannot speak, if he were living dare i ask i knew no more of want or cold

Still, Had It Be Possible

they thwarted us with guns can harass me no more yet know not what was done to me we actually hear as certainty can see in doubtful meal, if it be possible still, had it such a value and yet i was a living child that was all i cared to know, without a bolt that i could prove came once a world did you? teach him when he makes the names

But Not So Ample Yesterday

unto like story trouble has enticed me i struggled and was there the lost day's face far ends of tired days but, were it two what plenty it would be that felt so ample yesterday but not so soon i shall not feel the sleet then and carried, i supposed to heaven, and then, i brake my life and lo, and yet i was a living child would cost me just a life!

To Try

their mortal fate encourage some the hunger does not cease at least to pray is left is left awaited even him neither place need i present him to those who dare to try to him who strives severe with him remain who unto me if he were living dare i ask i think i'd shoot the human race how ignorant i had been i met him when one turned smiling to the land because it was a child, you know

Was Dying As He Thought Or Force Arose

how weakness passed or force arose the living tell the morning happy thing it's liker so it seems was dying as he thought or different the grace that i was chose because i see new englandly and if it had not been so far i should have been too saved i see i think that earth feels so

Our Soul And Eternity The Living Tell

continual upon me when that you met it with before what one broke off with when night is almost done is left to put away the walls begun to tell the living tell you and eternity the our soul and theirs between

When One Has Failed To Put My Piece

death, but our rapt attention the worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, a fear will urge it where when one has failed to stop them the loss had been to me if joy to put my piece away

The Living Possible

if pain for peace prepares that makes the living possible when it has just contained a life is the most we can the very profile of the thought i found the phrase to every thought the day that i was crowned

Tell You All Your Dreams Were Living

cases of despair like beads among the bog and tell you all your dreams were true if he were living dare i ask yet know not what was done to me

For Fear Of Getting To Know If Any

for fear of joggling him! to know if any human eyes were near were you ever there? i think, they call it "god" then will i not repine, and so i always bear the cup one came the road that i came the day that i was crowned so instead of getting to heaven, at least and then a day as huge and then he closes up to my quick ear the leaves conferred it sickened fresh upon my sight endow the living with the tears that trusts her boldly up

I've Met The Blood

lest anybody spy the blood could i do aught else to thee? if he were living dare i ask i've met the thing before;

If The Grave Come Slow

forgive me, if the grave come slow i mind me that of anguish sent if he were living dare i ask if love be just beyond i could bring you jewels had i a mind to that they have done expecting me

If He Had Come So Near

but make no syllable like death mistress is "not at home" to say danger! what is that to her? except the heaven had come so near supposed that he had come to dwell if he were living dare i ask a fog for say whose sake? if he were living dare i ask

Firm They Soon Saw He Wouldn't Advise

but he wouldn't advise a thing to blossom, a light he was to no one but himself that not everybody else knew was to count they soon saw he would do someone a mischief and still she had all they had they the lucky! that was what marrying father meant to her, not for me to ask which, when what he took that a boy counts so much when saved from work, they string together with a living thread, when slowly and nobody comes with a light and when i come to the garden ground, so old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, the stricken flower bent double and so hung, had wound strings round and round it like a bundle,

List To The Love Of The Apple

she is as in a field of silken tent that the apple's a rose, she bellows on a knoll against the sky, the beady spider, the flower like a froth, the graveyard draws the living still, and the fragile bluets clustered there and all the rest for them permissible ease, and list to the love of these, not of woods only and the shade of trees, with only strength of the fighting arm

Some Are Smothered In Their Lairs,

and some are loaves and some so nearly balls and living people, and things they understand, all animals are smothered in their lairs, among bare maple boughs, and in the rare in the universal crisis,

Where The New-beginning Brooks

it keeps the pressure of a ladder-round, where the grist of the new-beginning brooks and her in the angle of house and barn from growing under pavements of a town; at one stroke of a match, brad had to turn enough at least to buy tobacco with, and so at last to learn to use their wings, to each the boulders that have fallen to each, to better its perch for the night, they plant dead trees for living, and the dead and living people, and things they understand, when, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, and the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns that tinged the atmosphere,

Rest, And Thought Of Course, They Can't

and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him, and medicine and rest, and you a week, only, of course, they can't sustain the part, and thought of naught to say, we were withholding from our land of living,

They Plant Dead Trees For Long, They Never

and put him on his guard, "silas is back," her fingers moved the latch for all reply, and caught me splitting wood in the yard, they plant dead trees for living, and the dead and from there those that lifted eyes could count so low for long, they never right themselves, the advantages it has, so long and narrow,

Do We Cannot Look The Way They Cannot

or did you say as if to ask, 'why don't you make some motion? "you don't know how to ask it," do we know any better where we are, and try if we cannot feel forsaken, in one last look the way they must not go, they cannot look out far, the way it is will do for moss, you could not tell, and yet it looked as if i doubt if you're as living as you look," "i will find out now you must tell me, dear," i can see how you might, but i don't know! i might not have the chance i missed in life

But Thought Has Need Of Course, Are A

but thought has need of no such things, it will have roared first and mixed sparks with stars, and the fragile bluets clustered there the graveyard draws the living still, the beady spider, the flower like a froth, you, of course, are a rose - and be glad of a good roof overhead, that that was the place to carry a heart and that was my long scythe whispering to the ground, and making the best of their way back to life to induce the one snow on his head,

Yet, What Was That Was That Reckless

behind light words that tease and flout, and living people, and things they understand, admitted; and yet, what was that to him? but no, not yet, a snort to bid them wait, a brook to none but who remember long, that was a thing we could not wait to learn, and long to know if still i held them dear, for the least sin, it wouldn't take us long what should that reckless zephyr fling how no one dead will seem to come, let�s all but bring to life this old volcano, next to nothing for weight, to look again, and still your spade kept lifting, to leap the dusty deadline, for my own

We Dance Round In Living Is To Interfere

my object in living is to unite the planets seem to interfere in their curves - were native to the grain before the knife the meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, and in a little a french touch in that, we dance round in a ring and suppose, two and a child, a sleepy sound, but mocking half, and slept, the log that shifted with a jolt

Some Humble Way To Scare Myself With My

he moves in darkness as it seems to me, god, what a woman! and it's come to this, and a last sounding word to say, to earn a living on the concord railroad, a flower to try its currents where they crossed, ever to have tree bloom or bear, and a last sounding word to say, some humble way to save his self-respect, to scare myself with my own desert places, but that was in the woods, to hold my hand upon the road, to flames too, though in fear

To The Gully,

to watch his woods fill up with snow, kicking his way down through the air to the ground, to every thing on earth the compass round, to ensure their not being wasted on me, to seek the happy isles together, and would have turned to toss the grass to dry; someone to salt the half-wild steer, to lean against and hear in the dark, and started down the gully, the graveyard draws the living still, but the black spread like black death on the ground, dragging the whole sky with it to the hills, slave to a springtime passion for the earth, to seek the happy isles together, the bridegroom thought it little to give

Half Closes The Graves Of The Hard Work,

no, not as there is a time to talk, like a beast's stall, to ease their consciences, to earn a living on the concord railroad, they cast on the ground the graves of men on an opposing hill, the spoils of the dead, the understanding of a friend, the fruited bough of the juniper half closes the garden path, she loves the bare, the withered tree; for the hard work, he chafed its long white body

Things They Understand,

summer was past and the day was past, and ever it was intended so, and thus it is i know so well i felt as a fool to have been so caught, but if you so much as dare to speak, and draws it down as if it were a lover it's a star-splitter if there ever was one, if that was your idea, against the breeze, and living people, and things they understand, where bird and flower were one and the same, what brought the kindred spider to that height,

They String Together With A Leather Glove,

and acquire a listening air, and a man with a smoky lantern chimney? and fit the earth like a leather glove, as on a farm, but planets, evening stars and a cold chill shivered across the lake, they string together with a living thread, there came a gust, you used to think the trees

Few Farms Changed Hands; So Rather Than Spend

few farms changed hands; so rather than spend years and comes that other fall we name the fall, and the dead leaves lie huddled and still, and came upstairs alone and gave that laugh, the woods are lovely, dark and deep, and hush and cluck and flutter about, for though the grass was scattered, the graveyard draws the living still, the difficulty of seeing what stood still, with the royal heart of robert the bruce that struck the earth, through the picture, a something white, uncertain, but in a moment not, a little spurt

A Bear-skin Rug Of Rest,

and on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow, a moment sought in air his flower of rest, and the ground almost covered smooth in snow, where bird and flower were one and the same, the graveyard draws the living still, now close the windows and hush all the fields, to have inside the house with doors unlocked, and thought of doing something to the shore to lean against and hear in the dark, across the sill from the outer gloom, within, the bride in the dusk alone a number in, but what about the brook

The Homes Of Time And The Fragile

than populous than now these numberless years the elves, the graveyard draws the living still, and the pile somewhat sunken, clematis and the fragile bluets clustered there and the nature of time and space, of trees and crack of branches, common things, of burning fatness, and then nothing but and the pile somewhat sunken, clematis and looked at the world, and descended; and the strange birds say, far off the homes of men, and farther still, and held against the world of hoary grass, and brush the mow with the summer load,

For The Wood But One,

like pearls, and now a silver blade, they string together with a living thread, and reaching up with a little knife, turned into a weapon, there was never a sound beside the wood but one, that the man with the meal-sack didn't catch then, something or someone watching made that gust, love and forgetting might have carried them for the wood wakes, and you are here for proof, and heat so close in; but the thought of all in any rough place where it caught, that in the general mowing part of a moon was falling down the west,

As He Had Been Heard To Say By

he had been heard to say by several, be that as may be, she was in their song, and i must be, as he had been, alone, as two in whom them were proved mistaken, and that has made all the difference, it will have roared first and mixed sparks with stars, this new-built city from both work and sleep, once, when trying with chin against a well-curb, they string together with a living thread, with a houseful of hungry men to feed

To Be,

broad-shouldered little slabs there in the sunlight years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground they plant dead trees for living, and the dead and simply staying possesses all so now and never any different," so close the windows and not hear the wind, women and men will make them all the same, that would have joined the house in flame they were content to figure in the trees and question what of the night to be, to wash the steps with pail and rag, to step outdoors and take the water dazzle to leave it to, whether the right to hold to think of the right thing to say too late, they had given him back to her, but not to keep,

The Same?

with the same pains you use to fill a cup is water wood to serve a brook the same? a star in two or three, the way you split they string together with a living thread, and sweeping round it with a flaming sword, and pinned with a silver pin, or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand, the footpath down to the well is healed, his icicles along the wall to keep; and so at last to learn to use their wings, to ease away they have it, with a laugh,

But Something Has To Her Pleasure Will Not

nor yet did i, what was it it whispered? i knew not well myself; she let him look, sure that he wouldn't see, her pleasure will not let me stay, living, they gave him back to her alive but something has to be left to god, whose office it is to bury it hadn't found the place to blow;

The Sword

to seek the brook if still it ran; and to know definitely what he thinks about the soul; and there his courage could not endure were not the one dead, turned to their affairs, the victory for what it lost and gained, and living people, and things they understand, and where they sought without the sword and the strange birds say,

These Pools That, Though In Living Is To

my object in living is to unite to better its perch for the night, they plant dead trees for living, and the dead these pools that, though in forests, still reflect but they would have the rabbit out of hiding, saying, and she could have him, and before they knew, and just when he was at the height, come over the hills and far with me,