Poems begining by R
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Restless Leg Syndrome
© Edward Taylor
After the burial
we returned to our units
and assumed our poses.
Our posture was the new posture
Rain In Summer
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
Reverse cannot befall
© Emily Dickinson
Reverse cannot befall
That fine Prosperity
Whose Sources are interior --
As soon -- Adversity
Robbed by Death -- but that was easy --
© Emily Dickinson
Robbed by Death -- but that was easy --
To the failing Eye
I could hold the latest Glowing --
Robbed by Liberty
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun
© Emily Dickinson
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun
Seductive in the Air --
That Tun is hollow -- but the Tun --
With Hundred Weights -- to spare --
Ribbons of the Year --
© Emily Dickinson
Ribbons of the Year --
Multitude Brocade --
Worn to Nature's Party once
Revolution is the Pod
© Emily Dickinson
Revolution is the Pod
Systems rattle from
When the Winds of Will are stirred
Excellent is Bloom
Rest at Night
© Emily Dickinson
Rest at Night
The Sun from shining,
Nature -- and some Men --
Rest at Noon -- some Men --
While Nature
And the Sun -- go on --
Reportless Subjects, to the Quick
© Emily Dickinson
Reportless Subjects, to the Quick
Continual addressed --
But foreign as the Dialect
Of Danes, unto the rest.
Renunciation -- is a piercing Virtue --
© Emily Dickinson
Renunciation -- is a piercing Virtue --
The letting go
A Presence -- for an Expectation --
Not now --
Removed from Accident of Loss
© Emily Dickinson
Removed from Accident of Loss
By Accident of Gain
Befalling not my simple Days --
Myself had just to earn --
Remorse -- is Memory -- awake --
© Emily Dickinson
Remorse -- is Memory -- awake --
Her Parties all astir --
A Presence of Departed Acts --
At window -- and at Door --
Remembrance has a Rear and Front --
© Emily Dickinson
Remembrance has a Rear and Front --
'Tis something like a House --
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse.
Rehearsal to Ourselves
© Emily Dickinson
Rehearsal to Ourselves
Of a Withdrawn Delight --
Affords a Bliss like Murder --
Omnipotent -- Acute --
Recollect the Face of me
© Emily Dickinson
Recollect the Face of me
When in thy Felicity,
Due in Paradise today
Guest of mine assuredly --
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove
© Emily Dickinson
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove --
Till we -- are stouter --
What they -- renounced --
Till we -- are less afraid --
Rather arid delight
© Emily Dickinson
Rather arid delight
If Contentment accrue
Make an abstemious Ecstasy
Not so good as joy --
"Remember me" implored the Thief!
© Emily Dickinson
"Remember me" implored the Thief!
Oh Hospitality!
My Guest "Today in Paradise"
I give thee guaranty.
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
© Emily Dickinson
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
"Red Sea," indeed! Talk not to me
© Emily Dickinson
"Red Sea," indeed! Talk not to me
Of purple Pharaoh --
I have a Navy in the West
Would pierce his Columns thro' --
