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The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not...more

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.

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I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?"For b...more

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That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality

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We do not play on Graves—Because there isn't Room—Besides—it isn't even—it slantsAnd People come—And put a Flower on it—And hang their faces so—We're ...more

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

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Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

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Life is death we're lengthy at

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that ...more

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To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim --

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I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but ...more

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She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,Took up her simple wardrobeAnd started for the sun.Her little figure at the gateThe a...more

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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.