"The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin lace – She stood there in the room alone I spoke to her of grace –"

"The Past is such a curious Creature To look at, when we choose – A Man will go to buy a Book And think he buys a Rose –"

"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."

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."

"To make a Prairie it takes a Clover and one Bee, And Revery. The Revery alone will do, If Bees are few."