I pay — in Satin Cash (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I pay -- in Satin Cash -- You did not state -- your price -- A Petal, for a Paragraph ...
I pay -- in Satin Cash -- You did not state -- your price -- A Petal, for a Paragraph ...
I play at Riches -- to appease The Clamoring for Gold -- It kept me from a Thief, I think, ...
I prayed, at first, a little Girl, Because they told me to -- But stopped, when qualified to guess How ...
I read my sentence -- steadily -- Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In ...
I made slow Riches but my Gain Was steady as the Sun And every Night, it numbered more Than the ...
I make His Crescent fill or lack -- His Nature is at Full Or Quarter -- as I signify -- ...
I meant to find Her when I came -- Death -- had the same design -- But the Success -- ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
I never hear that one is dead Without the chance of Life Afresh annihilating me That mightiest Belief, Too mighty ...
I lived on Dread -- To Those who know The Stimulus there is In Danger -- Other impetus Is numb ...
I lost a World -- the other day! Has Anybody found? You'll know it by the Row of Stars Around ...
I know where Wells grow -- Droughtless Wells -- Deep dug -- for Summer days -- Where Mosses go no ...
I learned -- at least -- what Home could be -- How ignorant I had been Of pretty ways of ...
I live with Him -- I see His face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown ...
I heard, as if I had no Ear Until a Vital Word Came all the way from Life to me ...
I knew that I had gained And yet I knew not how By Diminution it was not But Discipline unto ...
I know a place where Summer strives With such a practised Frost -- She -- each year -- leads her ...
I know of people in the Grave Who would be very glad To know the news I know tonight If ...
I know Suspense -- it steps so terse And turns so weak away -- Besides -- Suspense is neighborly When ...
I had no time to Hate -- Because The Grave would hinder Me -- And Life was not so Ample ...
I had not minded -- Walls -- Were Universe -- one Rock -- And far I heard his silver Call ...
I had some things that I called mine -- And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim ...
I had the Glory -- that will do -- An Honor, Thought can turn her to When lesser Fames invite ...
I have never seen "Volcanoes" -- But, when Travellers tell How those old -- phlegmatic mountains Usually so still -- ...
I groped for him before I knew With solemn nameless need All other bounty sudden chaff For this foreshadowed Food ...
I had a daily Bliss I half indifferent viewed Till sudden I perceived it stir -- It grew as I ...
I had no Cause to be awake -- My Best -- was gone to sleep -- And Morn a new ...
I found the words to every thought I ever had -- but One -- And that -- defies me -- ...
I gained it so -- By Climbing slow -- By Catching at the Twigs that grow Between the Bliss -- ...
I could not prove the Years had feet -- Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past ...
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