by EmilyDickinsonPartingThe InevitableAspiration Aspiration We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.…
by EmilyDickinson
XXI
The Lost Thought
XXII
Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him.
As nature's curtain fell
The one who bore him tottered in,…
by EmilyDickinsonPhilosophyLIPower Power You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night. You cannot fold a flood
And put it…
by EmilyDickinsonSongVIIILoyalty Loyalty Split the lark and you'll find the music,
Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled,
Scantily dealt to the summer morning,
Saved for your ear when lutes…
by EmilyDickinsonXXVInvisibleXXVI Me! Come! My dazzled face
In such a shining place! Me! Hear! My foreign ear
The sounds of welcome near! The saints shall meet
Our bashful feet. My…
by EmilyDickinsonThe RatA Thunder-StormXXXVI Frequently the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown;
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town. Oft a head is crested
I was wont to…
by EmilyDickinsonAspirationA BookThe Inevitable The Inevitable While I was fearing it, it came,
But came with less of fear,
Because that fearing it so long
Had almost made it dear.…
by EmilyDickinsonFireVenturesA Man A Man Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled — he did not fall —
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes —
He neutralized them all. She stung…
by EmilyDickinsonXVWho?XVI Not with a club the heart is broken,
Nor with a stone;
A whip, so small you could not see it.
I've known To lash the magic creature
Till it fell,…
by EmilyDickinsonResurgamXXXIXXX Except to heaven, she is nought;
Except for angels, lone;
Except to some wide-wandering bee,
A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial;…
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