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""Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentleman can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Complete Poems, no. 185 (1955). |
"I could not bear the bees should come,"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I dreaded that first robin, so (l. 17).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved—
The Site—of it—by Architect
Could not again be proved—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Complete Poems, no. 370 (1955). |
"I dwell in Possibility—
A fairer House than Prose—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I dwell in Possibility (l. 1-2).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Complete Poems, no. 1075 (1955). |
"For Occupation—This—
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I dwell in Possibility (l. 10-12).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"Death is a Dialogue between,
The Spirit and the Dust."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Complete Poems, no. 976 (1955). |
"I dwell in Possibility—
A fairer House than Prose—
More numerous of Windows—
Superior—for Doors—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 657, Harvard variorum edition (1955). I Dwell in Possibility (written c. 1862, published 1929). |
"His mind of man, a secret makes
I meet him with a start
He carries a circumference
In which I have no part."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Complete Poems, no. 1663 (1955). |
"And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down—
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing—then—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (l. 17-20).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
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