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A wounded deer leaps highest,
A wounded deer leaps highest,
I've heard the hunter tell;
'Tis but the ecstasy of death,
And then the brake is still.
The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs:
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
Mirth is mail of anguish,
In which its cautious arm
Lest anybody spy the blood
And, "you're hurt" exclaim
I've heard the hunter tell;
'Tis but the ecstasy of death,
And then the brake is still.
The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs:
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
Mirth is mail of anguish,
In which its cautious arm
Lest anybody spy the blood
And, "you're hurt" exclaim
Poetry Books
Poetry
- A Book
- A Charm Invests A Face
- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
- A Thunderstorm
- A wounded deer leaps highest,
- Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- Come slowly, Eden!
- Death Sets A Thing
- Did The Harebell Loose Her Girdle
- Heart, we will forget him!
- Hope is the Thing with Feathers
- I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce
- I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
- I Went to Heaven
- I'm Nobody! Who are You?
- I've Known a Heaven Like a Tent
- My Life Closed Twice Before it Closed
- She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms
- Snake
- Success is Counted Sweetest
- Summer Shower
- The Bustle in a House
- The Mystery of Pain
- The Only News I Know
- The Pedigree of Honey
- There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
- There Is A Word
- There's a certain slant of light,
- There's Been a Death in the Opposite House
- This Is My Letter To The World
- This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
- We Like March
- When Roses Cease To Bloom, Dear
- Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
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