Frigid and sweet Her parting Face --
Frigid and fleet my Feet --
Alien and vain whatever Clime
Acrid whatever Fate.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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The Red upon the HillTaketh away my will --
If anybody sneer --
Take care -- for God is here --
That's all.
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Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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She went as quiet as the Dew
From an Accustomed flower.
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The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We -- difficult -- acquire
As Children, who remain in Face
The more their Feet retire.
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My story has a moral --
I have a missing friend --
"Pleiad" its name, and Robin,
And guinea in the sand.
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