Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

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 to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie.

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

I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.

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 twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

My Life had stood-- a Loaded Gun

There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory can step Around – across – opon it – As one within a Swoon – Goes safely – where an open eye – Would drop Him – Bone by Bone.