Felitsa-By Yanni

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

"This is my letter to the World"

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,-
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

within my reach

Within my reach!
I could have touched!
I might have chanced that way!
Soft sauntered through the village
sauntered as soft away!
So unsuspecpected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for striving fingers
That passed, an hour ago.

I have no life but this
to lead it here;
Nor any death, but lest
dispelled from there;

Nor tie to earths to come,
Nor action new,
Except through this extent,
The realm of you.

A door just opened on a street-
I, lost, was passing by-
An instant's width of warmth disclosed,
And weath, and company

The door as sudden shut, and I
I, lost was passing by,-
Lost doubly, byt by contrast most,
Enlightening misery.

And somethings odd--within--
that person that I was--
And this one--do not feel the same--
Could it be madness--this?

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