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 Dust, and its Feature -- Accredited -- Today -- Will in a second Future -- Cease to identify -- ...
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