Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind — Text taken from Wikisource. The Imaginative Conservative applies the principle of appreciation to [...]

There is a pain — so utter — It swallows substance up — Then covers the Abyss with Trance — So Memory can step Around — across — opon it — As One within a Swoon — Goes safely — where an open eye — Would drop Him — Bone by Bone — The Imaginative Conservative applies [...]

I went to Heaven — 'Twas a small Town — Lit — with a Ruby — Lathed — with Down — Stiller — than the fields At the full Dew — Beautiful — as Pictures — No Man drew. People — like the Moth — Of Mechlin — frames — Duties — of Gossamer — [...]

I Years had been from Home And now before the Door I dared not enter, lest a Face I never saw before Stare solid into mine And ask my Business there — "My Business but a Life I left Was such remaining there?" I leaned upon the Awe — I lingered with Before — The [...]