Old Osawatomie

JOHN Brown 's body under the morning stars.
Six feet of dust under the morning stars.
And a panorama of war performs itself
Over the six-foot stage of circling armies.
Room for Gettysburg, Wilderness, Chickamauga,
On a six-foot stage of dust.

The Fantail Pigeons

When from his coaly toil he came,
He loved to watch his fantails preen
Their snowy feathers, that, all day,
In the dark pit, like light had been
Before his eyes—the speckless, clean
And dazzling plumes of Jack and Nell,
Now fluttering round him like white flame,
Whose beauty never tongue could tell

Monna Innominata

AS ONNET O F Sonnets : Beatrice, immortalized by “altissimo poeta … cotanto amante”; Laura, celebrated by a great tho' an inferior bard,—have alike paid the exceptional penalty of exceptional honour, and have come down to us resplendent with charms, but (at least, to my apprehension) scant of attractiveness.

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