Category Emily Dickinson

I groped for him before I knew With solemn nameless need All other bounty sudden chaff For this foreshadowed Food Which others taste and spurn and sneer – Though I within suppose That consecrated it could be The only Food…

I fit for them – I seek the Dark Till I am thorough fit. The labor is a sober one With the austerer sweet – That abstinence of mine produce A purer food for them, if I succeed, If not…

I do not care – why should I care And yet I fear I’m caring To rock a fretting truth to sleep – Is short security The terror it will wake persistent as perdition Is harder than to face the…

I did not reach Thee But my feet slip nearer every day Three Rivers and a Hill to cross One Desert and a Sea I shall not count the journey one When I am telling thee Two deserts, but the…

Snowflakes. I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town – And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down – And then they grew so jolly I did resign the prig – And ten of…

I cannot want it more – I cannot want it less – My Human Nature’s fullest force Expends itself on this. And yet it nothing is To him who easy owns – Is Worth itself or Distance – He fathoms…

I cannot see my soul, but know ’tis there – Nor ever saw his house, ——–nor furniture – Who has invited me ——–with him to dwell; But a confiding guest, consult as well, What raiment honor him the most, That…

I cannot meet the Spring – unmoved – I feel the old desire – A Hurry with a lingering, mixed, A Warrant to be fair – A Competition in my sense With something hid in Her – And as she…

I bet with every Wind that blew Till Nature in chagrin Employed a Fact to visit me And scuttle my Balloon –

I am afraid to own a Body – I am afraid to own a Soul – Profound – precarious Property – Possession, not optional – Double Estate – entailed at pleasure Upon an unsuspecting Heir – Duke in a moment…