by EmilyDickinsonLife's TradesXIX Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise.
Three times, 't is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To…
by EmilyDickinsonXLIXLIThe Soul's Storm The Soul's Storm It struck me every day
The lightning was as new
As if the cloud that instant slit
And let the fire through. It burned me in…
by EmilyDickinsonXIXThe MountainTwo Worlds Two Worlds It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The mornings blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame. Wild-…
by EmilyDickinsonXXIIIDyingXXIV Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?
Not death; for who is he?
The porter of my father's lodge
As much abasheth me. Of life? 'T were odd I fear a thing
That…
by EmilyDickinsonVSetting SailFrom the Chrysalis From the Chrysalis My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I'm feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear. A power…
by EmilyDickinsonXVIIBy the SeaTwo Voyagers Two Voyagers Two butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
Then stepped straight through the firmament
And rested on a beam;…
by EmilyDickinsonSummer's ObsequiesNovemberFringed Gentian Fringed Gentian God made a little gentian;
It tried to be a rose
And failed, and all the summer laughed.
But just before the snows…
by EmilyDickinsonDyingXLVIIIXLVII Adrift! A little boat adrift!
And night is coming down!
Will no one guide a little boat
Unto the nearest town? So sailors say, on yesterday,
Just…
by EmilyDickinsonVVIIA Service of Song A Service of Song Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.…
by EmilyDickinsonMy RoseThe OrioleThe Oriole's Secret The Oriole's Secret To hear an oriole sing
May be a common thing,
Or only a divine. It is not of the bird
Who sings the same,…
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