Date: 1890
"The soul selects her own society, / Then shuts the door; / On her divine majority / Obtrude no more."
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Date: 1892
"So, safer, guess, with just my soul / Upon the window-pane / Where other creatures put their eyes, / Incautious of the sun."
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Date: 1892
"A deed knocks first at thought, / And then it knocks at will."
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Date: 1892
"It then goes out an act, / Or is entombed so still / That only to the ear of God / Its doom is audible."
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Date: 1892
"The body grows outside,-- / The more convenient way,-- / That if the spirit like to hide, / Its temple stands alway // Ajar, secure, inviting."
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Date: 1892
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place."
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