Through the strait pass of suffering --
The Martyrs -- even -- trod.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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A jealous Zephyr -- not a doubt --
Ah, friend, you little knew
How long at that celestial wick
The Angels -- labored diligent --
Extinguished -- now -- for you!
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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June and in it are my friends every one of them.
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The property, my garden,
Which having sown with care,
He claims the pretty acre,
And sends a Bailiff there.
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Her face was in a bed of hair,
Like flowers in a plot --
Her hand was whiter than the sperm
That feeds the sacred light.
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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