My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“To wait an Hour—is long— If Love be just beyond— To wait Eternity—is short— If Love reward the end—” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, . . . The little toil of love, I thought,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Lest Love should value less What loss would value more, Had it the stricken privilege --- It cherishes before.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Summer-we all have seen- A few of us-believed- A few the more aspiring Unquestionably loves... .” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I did not reach thee, But my feet slip nearer every day; Three Rivers and a Hill to cross, One Desert and… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Part Three: Love V DOUBT me, my dim companion! Why, God would be content With but a fraction of the love Poured… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
