VodVonDetta's Saved Poems

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
...

I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh
When the dull day is passing by.
I sigh at evening, and again
I sigh when night brings sleep to men.
Oh! it were far better to die
Than thus forever mourn and sigh,
And in death's dreamless sleep to be
Unconscious that...

  O LIVING always--always dying!
  O the burials of me, past and present!
  O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!
  O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not--I am content;)
  O to disengage myself from...

  I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the
  whole of the rest of the earth;
  I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;
  Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led the
  rest;
 ...

Nothing is so beautiful as spring --
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him...