Whatever it is -- she has tried it --
Awful Father of Love --
Is not Ours the chastising --
Do not chastise the Dove --
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Your Riches -- taught me -- Poverty.Emily Dickinson
That makes two -- Him -- and Life!
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Between the form of Life and Life
The difference is as big
As Liquor at the Lip between
And Liquor in the Jug
The latter -- excellent to keep --
But for ecstatic need
The corkless is superior --
I know for I have tried
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Sic transit gloria mundi,"
"How doth the busy bee,"
"Dum vivimus vivamus,"
I stay mine enemy!
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Surgeons must be very careful, When they take the knife, Underneath their fine incisions, Stirs the Culprit Life.
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Love is like Life -- merely longer
Love is like Death, during the Grave
Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection
Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live"!
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