Great Regulars: That she once met and touched one so

esteemed will continue to play as a presence in her mind and heart. She is grateful for the opportunity just to have briefly known him, but she cannot presume that they could have a permanent relationship.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 6

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Summer has gone; it "lapsed away." By describing summer's leaving as an act of lapsing, the speaker implies that it slowly went and quite smoothly. As a matter of fact, it was so smooth and gradual that its final departure was unnoticeable.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dickinson's As imperceptibly as grief

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[James Weldon] Johnson's metaphoric "Night" represents the non-vibratory realm of reality where nothing is manifested, only the mind of God exists in that vibrationless realm. There is no creation only a peaceful possibility, a potential. Until God chooses to create beings to populate His cosmos, He simply "broods" like a "mother over chaos.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Johnson's Mother Night

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In Paramahansa Yogananda's "My Prisoner," the speaker addresses the Divine Belovedreminding Him that He has been hiding from the devotee/speaker for many years.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's My Prisoner

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