“Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.”

“This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies, And Lads and Girls;Was laughter and ability and sighing,And frocks and curls.This passive place a Summer's nimble mansion,Where Bloom and BeesFulfilled their Oriental Circuit,Then ceased like these.”

“Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies”

“Lad of Athens, faithful beTo thyself,And Mystery -All the rest is Perjury”

“I see thee better in the darkI do not need a light.”

“Faith—is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not—Too slender for the eyeIt bears the Soul as boldAs it were rocked in SteelWith Arms of Steel at either side—It joins—behind the VeilTo what, could We presumeThe Bridge would cease to beTo Our far, vacillating FeetA first Necessity.”

“To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee—”