To hold a letter to the light --
Grown Tawny now, with time --
To con the faded syllables
That quickened us like Wine!
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Other Courtesies have been --Other Courtesy may be --
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.
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If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb.
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Reserving that but just to prove
Another Date of Thee --
Oh God of Width, do not for us
Curtail Eternity!
Emily Dickinson
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Not for itself, the Dust is shy,
But, enemy, Beloved be
Thy Batteries divorce.
Emily Dickinson
If the foolish, call them "flowers" --
Need the wiser, tell?
Emily Dickinson
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