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Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

Emily Dickinson
Father, Dust, Hands
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.561, Harvard University Press

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

Emily Dickinson
Arrows, Atheism, Strikes
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.602, Harvard University Press

A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

Emily Dickinson
Friends, Mind, Temperature
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.112, Harvard University Press

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

Emily Dickinson
House, Possibility, Prose
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I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

Emily Dickinson
Beauty, Death, Truth
"I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

Emily Dickinson
Sunshine, Portraits, West
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.84, Harvard University Press

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

Emily Dickinson
Friendship, Soul, Enemy
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.261, Harvard University Press

Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?

Emily Dickinson
Summer, June, Two
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.767, Harvard University Press

As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.

Emily Dickinson
Summer, Autumn, Years
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

Emily Dickinson
Hurt, Eye, Steel
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Emily Dickinson: Everyman's Poetry”, p.83, Hachette UK

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

Emily Dickinson
Home, Literature, Domes
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

Emily Dickinson
Needs, Witchcraft, Hung
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.644, Harvard University Press

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

Emily Dickinson
Angel, Feet, Snow
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

Emily Dickinson
Loss, Tears
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.294, Harvard University Press

His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

Emily Dickinson
Long, Cheeks, Biographers
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1740, Delphi Classics

Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.

Emily Dickinson
Eye, Bridges, Feet
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Letting Go, Trying
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Air, Sea
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.695, Harvard University Press

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

Emily Dickinson
Swings, Fearless, Ceilings
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.75, Harvard University Press

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

Emily Dickinson
Food, Grace, Mixing
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.116, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

Emily Dickinson
Jesus, Air, Atheism
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Giving, Memorial
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

Emily Dickinson
Years, Agony, Hundred
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

Emily Dickinson
Nature, Tree, Hemlock
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.47, Harvard University Press

I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson
Wine, World, Easier
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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