by EmilyDickinson
Transcriber's Note
Preface
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced absolutely…
by EmilyDickinsonWaitingXXXIVXXXIII A sickness of this world it most occasions
When best men die;
A wishfulness their far condition
To occupy. A chief indifference, as foreign
A…
by EmilyDickinsonIn a LibraryXIIXI Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are…
by EmilyDickinsonEnoughMy Country's WardrobeXXVIII Experiment to me
Is every one I meet.
If it contain a kernel?
The figure of a nut Presents upon a tree,
Equally plausibly;
But meat…
by EmilyDickinsonXVTriumphXVI There is a shame of nobleness
Confronting sudden pelf, —
A finer shame of ecstasy
Convicted of itself. A best disgrace a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of…
by EmilyDickinsonTriumphXIXXVIII Pompless no life can pass away;
The lowliest career
To the same pageant wends its way
As that exalted here.
How cordial is the mystery!
The…
by EmilyDickinsonGoingXXVIXXV Essential oils are wrung:
The attar from the rose
Is not expressed by suns alone,
It is the gift of screws. The general rose decays;
But this, in lady's…
by EmilyDickinsonXVIII Had a Guinea GoldenA Portrait A Portrait A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at…
by EmilyDickinsonImmortalityXIIXI The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear;
Their coming back seems possible
For many an ardent year. And then, that we have…
by EmilyDickinsonVIVIIIVII Given in marriage unto thee,
Oh, thou celestial host!
Bride of the Father and the Son,
Bride of the Holy Ghost! Other betrothal shall dissolve,
Wedlock…
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