by EmilyDickinsonVIIIXIX A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the churchyard rang; And then adjusted…
by EmilyDickinsonThe LoversXIIIXII In lands I never saw, they say,
Immortal Alps look down,
Whose bonnets touch the firmament,
Whose sandals touch the town, — Meek at whose everlasting…
by EmilyDickinsonThe WindThe WoodpeckerXVII A dew sufficed itself
And satisfied a leaf,
And felt, 'how vast a destiny!
How trivial is life!' The sun went out to work,
The day went…
by EmilyDickinsonThe BrainThe PastXLIV The bone that has no marrow;
What ultimate for that?
It is not fit for table,
For beggar, or for cat. A bone has obligations,
A being has the…
by EmilyDickinsonXLVIDesireXLVII What soft, cherubic creatures
These gentlewomen are!
One would as soon assault a plush
Or violate a star. Such dimity convictions,
A horror so…
by EmilyDickinson
A Word
Life's Trades
VII
To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or me
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!
To…
by EmilyDickinsonXXXWaitingXXXI I meant to find her when I came;
Death had the same design;
But the success was his, it seems,
And the discomfit mine. I meant to tell her how I…
by EmilyDickinsonAlong the PotomacEmancipationXXXIV The daisy follows soft the sun,
And when his golden walk is done,
Sits shyly at his feet.
He, waking, finds the flower near.
"…
by EmilyDickinsonIIIVIII The nearest dream recedes, unrealized.
The heaven we chase
Like the June bee
Before the school-boy
Invites the race;
Stoops to an easy…
by EmilyDickinsonOut of the MorningDay's ParlorIII At half-past three a single bird
Unto a silent sky
Propounded but a single term
Of cautious melody. At half-past four, experiment
Had…
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