The Truth Of Things

‘You might have told me the truth of things!’ -
‘”The truth of things”, my dear?’
‘How softly the wind, as if in ruth,
Breathes in the willows here …
It may be a comfort at last to dream
Where the dead their mole-mounds rear.’
 
‘You might have told me the facts of life!’ -
‘”The facts of life”, my dear?’
‘How blazingly [...]

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The Chariot

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
 
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
 
We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
 
We paused before [...]

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So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving

So, well go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
 
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.
 
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we’ll [...]

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