It is not fit for Table
For Beggar or for Cat.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
More Quotes from Emily Dickinson:
One Pearl -- to me -- so signal --That I would instant dive --
Although -- I knew -- to take it --
Would cost me -- just a life!
Emily Dickinson
The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
Emily Dickinson
What care the Dead for Summer?
Emily Dickinson
Nor when it altered, I could say,
For I had worn it, every day,
As constant as the Childish frock --
I hung upon the Peg, at night.
Emily Dickinson
I told myself, "Take Courage, Friend --
That -- was a former time --
But we might learn to like the Heaven,
As well as our Old Home!
Emily Dickinson
Pardon the Cochineal --
Suffer the Vermillion --
Death is the Wealth
Of the Poorest Bird.
Emily Dickinson
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