115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord? Where the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth -- No brimming Tankards flow -- Necromancer!...

139 Soul, Wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost indeed -- But tens have won an all -- Angel's breathless ballot Lingers to record thee -- Imps in eager Caucus Raffle for my Soul!...

118 My friend attacks my friend! Oh Battle picturesque! Then I turn Soldier too, And he turns Satirist! How martial is this place! Had I a mighty gun I think I'd shoot the human race And then to glory run!11...

120 If this is "fading" Oh let me immediately "fade"! If this is "dying" Bury me, in such a shroud of red! If this is "sleep," On such a night How proud to shut the eye! Good...

126 To fight aloud, is very brave -- But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe -- Who win, and nations do not see -- Who fall -- and none observe -- Whose dying eyes, no Country Regard...

131 Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the Haze -- A few incisive Mornings -- A few Ascetic Eves -- Gone -- Mr. Bryant's "Golden Rod" -- An...

180 As if some little Arctic flower Upon the polar hem -- Went wandering down the Latitudes Until it puzzled came To continents of summer -- To firmaments of sun -- To strange, bright crowds of flowers -- And birds,...

153 Dust is the only Secret -- Death, the only One You cannot find out all about In his "native town." Nobody know "his Father" -- Never was a Boy -- Hadn't any playmates, Or "Early hist...

205 I should not dare to leave my friend, Because -- because if he should die While I was gone -- and I -- too late -- Should reach the Heart that wanted me -- If I should disappoint the eyes That hunted -- hunted so -- t...

216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -- Untouched my Morning And untouched by Noon -- Lie the meek members of the Resurrection -- Rafter of Satin -- and Roof of Stone! Grand go the Years -- in the Crescent -- above them -...