I learned-at least-what Home could be (Emily Dickinson Poems)
944I learned-at least-what Home could be-How ignorant I had beenOf pretty ways of Covenant-How awkward at the HymnRound our new ...
944I learned-at least-what Home could be-How ignorant I had beenOf pretty ways of Covenant-How awkward at the HymnRound our new ...
646I think to Live-may be a BlissTo those who dare to try-Beyond my limit to conceive-My lip-to testify-I think the ...
512The Soul has Bandaged moments-When too appalled to stir-She feels some ghastly Fright come upAnd stop to look at her-Salute ...
617Don't put up my Thread and Needle -I'll begin to SewWhen the Birds begin to whistle -Better Stitches - so ...
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading-treading-till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through-And when they ...
978It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon-The Flower-distinct and Red-I, passing, thought another NoonAnother in its steadWill equal glow, and ...
A bird came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw.And ...
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.Far safer, ...
426It don't sound so terrible-quite-as it did-I run it over-"Dead", Brain, "Dead."Put it in Latin-left of my school-Seems it don't ...
286That after Horror-that 'twas us-That passed the mouldering Pier-Just as the Granite Crumb let go-Our Savior, by a Hair-A second ...
945This is a Blossom of the Brain -A small - italic SeedLodged by Design or HappeningThe Spirit fructified -Shy as ...
159A little bread - a crust - a crumb -A little trust - a demijohn -Can keep the soul alive ...
632The Brain - is wider than the Sky -For - put them side by side -The one the other will ...
Publication-is the AuctionOf the Mind of Man-Poverty-be justifyingFor so foul a thingPossibly-but We-would ratherFrom Our Garret goWhite-Unto the White Creator-Than ...
A shady friend for torrid daysIs easier to findThan one of higher temperatureFor frigid hour of mind.The vane a little ...
I felt a cleaving in my mind As if my brain had split;I tried to match it, seam by seam, ...
I had no time to hate, becauseThe grave would hinder me,And life was not so ample ICould finish enmity.Nor had ...
708I sometimes drop it, for a Quick-The Thought to be alive-Anonymous Delight to know-And Madder-to conceive-Consoles a Woe so monstrousThat ...
It is an honorable thought, And makes one lift one's hat,As one encountered gentlefolk Upon a daily street,That we've immortal ...
Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.When you have ...
774It is a lonesome Glee-Yet sanctifies the Mind-With fair association-Afar upon the WindA Bird to overhearDelight without a Cause-Arrestless as ...
349I had the Glory-that will do-An Honor, Thought can turn her toWhen lesser Fames invite-With one long "Nay"-Bliss' early shapeDeforming-Dwindling-Gulfing ...
One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted -- One need not be a House -- The Brain ...
Within my Garden, rides a Bird Upon a single Wheel -- Whose spokes a dizzy Music make As 'twere a ...
Who were "the Father and the Son" We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us ...
Who goes to dine must take his Feast Or find the Banquet mean -- The Table is not laid without ...
We like a Hairbreadth 'scape It tingles in the Mind Far after Act or Accident Like paragraphs of Wind If ...
We like March. His Shoes are Purple -- He is new and high -- Makes he Mud for Dog and ...
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise Would scan ...
This Me -- that walks and works -- must die, Some fair or stormy Day, Adversity if it may be ...
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