To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take… — Emily Dickinson Death Copy Share Image
I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. — Emily Dickinson Men Copy Share Image
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die… — Emily Dickinson Death Copy Share Image
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard… — Emily Dickinson Church Copy Share Image
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - — Emily Dickinson Arrogance Copy Share Image
The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise -- Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. So from Cocoon… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be. Bait it with the balsam, Seek… — Emily Dickinson Death Copy Share Image
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze...,… — Emily Dickinson Autumn Copy Share Image
I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And… — Emily Dickinson Bird Copy Share Image
Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir abroad Without… — Emily Dickinson April Copy Share Image
“Belshazzar had a letter,— He never had but one; Belshazzar’s correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us… — Emily Dickinson Conscience Copy Share Image
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled -- he did not fall -- Impaled him on her fiercest stakes… — Emily Dickinson Fate Copy Share Image
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave… — Emily Dickinson Earth Copy Share Image
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. — Emily Dickinson Brave Copy Share Image
Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. — Emily Dickinson Ecstatic Copy Share Image
'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly. — Emily Dickinson Commerce Copy Share Image
A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough… — Emily Dickinson Astronomy Copy Share Image
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. — Emily Dickinson Abdication Copy Share Image
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed… — Emily Dickinson Breaths Copy Share Image
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky - — Emily Dickinson Aptitude Copy Share Image
Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again… — Emily Dickinson Architect Copy Share Image
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will… — Emily Dickinson Bees Copy Share Image
If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb. — Emily Dickinson Alive Copy Share Image
“Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?” — Emily Dickinson Gardening Copy Share Image
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Bind me-I still can sing- Banish-my mandolin Strikes true within- Slay-and my Soul shall rise Chanting to Paradise- Still thine.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Evening Copy Share Image
The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until — Emily Dickinson Altruism Copy Share Image
