I'm "wife"I've finished that (199)

I'm "wife"I've finished that

That other state
I'm CzarI'm "Woman" now
It's safer so

How odd the Girl's life looks
Behind this soft Eclipse
I think that Earth feels so
To folks in Heavennow

This being comfortthen
That other kindwas pain
But why compare?
I'm "Wife"! Stop there!

I taste a liquor never brewed (214)

I taste a liquor never brewed
From Tankards scooped in Pearl
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such an Alcohol!

Inebriate of air am I
And Debauchee of Dew
Reeling thro' endless summer days
From inns of molten Blue

When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove's door
When Butterflies renounce their "drams"
I shall but drink the more!

Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats
And Saints to windows run
To see the little Tippler
Leaning against the Sun!

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are youNobodyToo?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertiseyou know!

How drearyto beSomebody!
How publiclike a Frog
To tell one's namethe livelong June
To an admiring Bog!



The first Day's Night had come (410)

The first Day's Night had come
And grateful that a thing
So terriblehad been endured
I told my Soul to sing

She said her Strings were snapt
Her Bowto Atoms blown
And so to mend hergave me work
Until another Morn

And thena Day as huge
As Yesterdays in pairs,
Unrolled its horror in my face
Until it blocked my eyes

My Brainbegun to laugh
I mumbledlike a fool
And tho' 'tis Years agothat Day
My Brain keeps gigglingstill.

And Something's oddwithin
That person that I was
And this Onedo not feel the same
Could it be Madnessthis?

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
`Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you`re straightaway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain

To fill a Gap (546)

To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it
Block it up
With Otherand 'twill yawn the more
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air.