because of the trade taking place between the two lovers.She suggests that she is receiving the lock from the head of her poet/lover with all the gusto that one would experience upon receiving whole loads of cargoes from ships; the speaker exaggerates the value of that lock by asserting that it "outweighs argosies."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 19
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The speaker is reminiscing about her feelings "a year ago" before she had met her belovèd. She sat watching the snow that remained without his "footprint." The silence surrounding her lingered without "thy voice."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 20
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The little boy had curls that looked like "a lamb's back." The speaker comforts little Tom, however, telling him of the efficacy of having a shaved head instead of all those white curls.
Because the pair will be working in chimneys sweeping out the black soot, they need to have shaved heads so that the soot will not become lodged in the hair.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Blake's The Chimney Sweeper
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The speaker then asserts that the clock "proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right." The speaker has demonstrated some consternation about his night walks through the city; his timid reaction to the watchman reveals that he felt he probably should not be out so late at night, but then upon seeing the clock, he reinterprets time, realizing that time is neutral, and only the human associates appropriateness with time.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost's Acquainted with the Night
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The ant was laboring, as ants are wont to do, and the speaker is impressed with ant's virtuosity. But the speaker makes the apparently rational claim that the ant "will never live another life but this one." But to counter this appalling notion of living only one life, the speaker offers, "if she lives her life with all her strength/is she not wonderful and wise?"
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Oliver's Reckless Poem
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Thus the mind because it is "at purest play" is not motivated by necessity; it has "no need to falter or explore." It is merely searching the endless possibilities that exist in the unknown. Like the bat, it knows without being able to see logical pathways that "obstacles are there." So the mind like the bat seems to "weave and flitter, dip and soar," and they both are able to navigate the sheer darkness "in perfect courses through the blackest air."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Richard Wilbur's Mind
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The speaker is observing the moving loveliness of the landscape as it is "shown by hasty, racing peddler windshield screen." He metaphorically compares the car's windshield to a peddler who is selling his wares--in this case, offering the observer all the beautiful scenes, past which the car travels.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's Mohawk Trail
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