Emily Dickinson

‘Tis so much joy! ‘Tis so much joy!

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy!If I should fail, what poverty!And yet, as poor as I,Have ventured all…

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‘Tis Opposites—entice

'Tis Opposites—entice—Deformed Men—ponder Grace—Bright fires—the Blanketless—The Lost—Day's face—The Blind—esteem it beEnough Estate—to see—The Captive—strangles new—For deeming—Beggars—play—To lack—enamor Thee—Tho' the Divinity—Be…

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‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so

'Tis not that Dying hurts us so—'Tis Living—hurts us more—But Dying—is a different way—A Kind behind the Door—The Southern Custom—of…

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‘Tis customary as we part’

'Tis customary as we partA trinket—to confer—It helps to stimulate the faithWhen Lovers be afar—'Tis various—as the various taste—Clematis—journeying far—Presents…

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“We talked as Girls do-“

We talked as Girls do—Fond, and late—We speculated fair, on every subject, but the Grave—Of ours, none affair—We handled Destinies,…

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“No Romance sold unto”

No Romance sold untoCould so enthrall a ManAs the perusal ofHis Individual One—'Tis Fiction's—When 'tis small enoughTo Credit—'Tisn't true!

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“Me from Myself—to banish”

Me from Myself—to banish—Had I Art—Impregnable my FortressUnto All Heart—But since Myself—assault Me—How have I peaceExcept by subjugatingConsciousness?And since We're…

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“As if I asked a common Alms”

As if I asked a common Alms,And in my wondering handA Stranger pressed a Kingdom,And I, bewildered, stand—As if I…

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