Astra Castra
V
IV
Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
Light…
Poems by Emily Dickinson
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First Series
This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me, --
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is…
Poems by Emily Dickinson
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Third Series
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My nosegays are for captives;
Dim, long-expectant eyes,
Fingers denied the plucking,
Patient till paradise,
To such,…
Poems by Emily Dickinson
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It's all I have to bring to-day,
This, and my heart beside,
This, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide.
Be sure…
A Portrait Saturday Afternoon I Had a Guinea Golden I had a guinea golden;
I lost it in the sand,
And though the sum was simple,
And pounds were in the land,
Still had it such a…
by EmilyDickinsonThe BeeXVIIXVI Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass.
by EmilyDickinsonXVThe Railway TrainXVI Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit, — Life!
