But who am I,
To tell the pretty secret
Of the Butterfly!
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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It was a Grave, yet bore no StoneEnclosed 'twas not of Rail
A Consciousness its Acre, and
It held a Human Soul.
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The satyr's fingers beckoned --
The valley murmured "Come" --
These were the mates --
This was the road
Those children fluttered home.
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To hold a letter to the light --
Grown Tawny now, with time --
To con the faded syllables
That quickened us like Wine!
Emily Dickinson
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson
To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe.
Emily Dickinson
Celebrated part at Table
Part in Memory.
Emily Dickinson
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