Paid all that life had earned
In one consummate bill,
And now, what life or death can do
Is immaterial.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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There is a finished feelingExperienced at Graves --
A leisure of the Future --
A Wilderness of Size.
Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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He lived the Life of Ambush
And went the way of Dusk
And now against his subtle name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality intrenched
Within a star --
Emily Dickinson
Proud of my night, since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
Emily Dickinson
Charged us to forget Him --
But we couldn't learn!
Emily Dickinson
An hour, and gay on every tree
Your secret, perched in ecstasy
Defies imprisonment!
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