by EmilyDickinsonIIIVIV We play at paste,
Till qualified for pearl,
Then drop the paste,
And deem ourself a fool.
The shapes, though, were similar,
And our new hands
Learned gem-tactics…
by EmilyDickinsonXXXIXDeedXL When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered…
by EmilyDickinson
XXXVIII
Alpine Glow
XXXIX
Life, and Death, and Giants
Such as these, are still.
Minor apparatus, hopper of the mill,
Beetle at the candle,
Or a fife's small fame,
Maintain by…
by EmilyDickinson
Power
LII
LI
A modest lot, a fame petite,
A brief campaign of sting and sweet
Is plenty! Is enough!
A sailor's business is the shore,
A soldier's — balls. Who asketh more…
by EmilyDickinsonIXA RoseX To my quick ear the leaves conferred;
The bushes they were bells;
I could not find a privacy
From Nature's sentinels. In cave if I presumed to hide,
The…
by EmilyDickinsonXVAsleepXVI Not any higher stands the grave
For heroes than for men;
Not any nearer for the child
Than numb three-score and ten. This latest leisure equal lulls…
by EmilyDickinsonXLXLIIXLI I breathed enough to learn the trick,
And now, removed from air,
I simulate the breath so well,
That one, to be quite sure The lungs are stirless, must…
by EmilyDickinsonLVSleepingLVI Far from love the Heavenly Father
Leads the chosen child;
Oftener through realm of briar
Than the meadow mild, Oftener by the claw of dragon
Than the…
by EmilyDickinson
VIII
In a Library
IX
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if…
by EmilyDickinsonXVIIXIXXVIII Angels in the early morning
May be seen the dews among,
Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying:
Do the buds to them belong? Angels when the sun is hottest
May…
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