With inference appalling
By Childhood fortified
We thought, at least they are no worse
Than they have been described.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Playmates, and holidays, and nuts --And visions vast and small --
Strange that the feet so precious charged
Should reach so small a goal!
Emily Dickinson
I showed her Secrets -- Morning's Nest --
The Rope the Nights were put across --
And now -- "Would'st have me for a Guest?
Emily Dickinson
And all the Earth strove common round --
Without Delight, or Beam --
What Comfort was it Wisdom -- was --
The spoiler of Our Home?
Emily Dickinson
Frigid and sweet Her parting Face --
Frigid and fleet my Feet --
Alien and vain whatever Clime
Acrid whatever Fate.
Emily Dickinson
To what, could We presume
The Bridge would cease to be
To Our far, vacillating Feet
A first Necessity.
Emily Dickinson
This -- is the land -- the Sunset washes --
These -- are the Banks of the Yellow Sea --
Where it rose -- or whither it rushes --
These -- are the Western Mystery!
Emily Dickinson
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