Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over..

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now..

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose..

The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn b….

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon..

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge….

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream….

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well..

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat..

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile..

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground..

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn ….

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear..

I bear a little more than I can bear..