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Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

Emily Dickinson
Loss, Quality, Sound
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.613, Harvard University Press

I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

Emily Dickinson
Lonely, House, Looks
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.14, First Avenue Editions

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Bustle, Consequence
Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.184, Wordsworth Editions

And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream

Emily Dickinson
Dream, Broke, Lost
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.196, Harvard University Press

Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

Emily Dickinson
Tired, Sleep, Love Is
Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes (2011). “Emily Dickinson”, p.52, Faber & Faber

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson
Dream, Bees, Pollination
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

Emily Dickinson
Horse, Children, School
'Because I could not stop for Death' (c.1863)

THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

Emily Dickinson
Doors, Waiting, Heaven
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

Emily Dickinson
Wall, Glasses, Letters
Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

Emily Dickinson
Fall, Autumn, Nuts
Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

Emily Dickinson
Depression, Fall, Mental Illness

I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

Emily Dickinson
Mean, Knowing, Heaven
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

Emily Dickinson
Giving Up, Atheism, Christ
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.9, Harvard University Press

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Broken, May
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.679, Harvard University Press

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

Emily Dickinson
Sky, Wings, Bird
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

Emily Dickinson
Adversity, Wealth, Prosperity
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.255, Harvard University Press

Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

Emily Dickinson
Noon, Hinges
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

Emily Dickinson
Beautiful, Silence, Silent
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2032, Delphi Classics

The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

Emily Dickinson
Mourning, Faces, Behinds
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.511, Harvard University Press

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

Emily Dickinson
Distance, Lying, Sky
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.244, Harvard University Press

Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

Emily Dickinson
Eye, Waiting, Revelations
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.228, Harvard University Press

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

Emily Dickinson
Needs, Immortality, Immortal
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

Emily Dickinson
Love, Sage, Done
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.568, Harvard University Press

The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

Emily Dickinson
Sweet, Integrity, Grief
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.562, Harvard University Press

Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Names, Alive
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.611, Harvard University Press

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