A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances --
First time together thrown.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Garrisoned no Soul can beIn the Front of Trouble --
Love is one, not aggregate --
Nor is Dying double --
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Lest this be Heaven indeed
An Obstacle is given
That always gauges a Degree
Between Ourself and Heaven.
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Or a leaving Home, or later,
Parting with a World
We have understood for better
Still to be explained.
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The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie True Poems flee.
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.
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