I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they said.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Judgment is justestWhen the Judged,
His action laid away,
Divested is of every Disk
But his sincerity.
Emily Dickinson
Faith is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not .
Emily Dickinson
Twice have I stood a beggar
Before the door of God!
Emily Dickinson
How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain But why compare I'm wife stop there.
Emily Dickinson
On Moses -- seemed to fasten
With tantalizing Play
As Boy -- should deal with lesser Boy --
To prove ability.
Emily Dickinson
First at the March -- competing with the Wind --
Her panting note exalts us -- like a friend --
Last to adhere when Summer cleaves away --
Elegy of Integrity.
Emily Dickinson
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