Escape -- it is the Basket
In which the Heart is caught
When down some awful Battlement
The rest of Life is dropt --
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Forever is composed of nows.Emily Dickinson
Meanwhile -- Her wheeling King --
Trailed -- slow -- along the Orchards --
His haughty -- spangled Hems --
Leaving a new necessity!
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Crowns of Life" are servile Prizes
To the stately Heart,
Given for the Giving, solely,
No Emolument.
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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The Subterranean Freight
The Cellars of the Soul --
Thank God the loudest Place he made
Is license to be still.
Emily Dickinson
Who asketh more,
Must seek the neighboring life!
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