So give me back to Death --
The Death I never feared
Except that it deprived of thee --
And now, by Life deprived,
In my own Grave I breathe
And estimate its size --
Its size is all that Hell can guess --
And all that Heaven was --
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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If the foolish, call them "flowers" --
Need the wiser, tell?
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Time is a Test of Trouble But not a Remedy If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady
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There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of Cathedral tunes.
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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I never hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation
A flying attitude!
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