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I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat

I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

Emily Dickinson
Drinking, Home, Ice Cream
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.118, Harvard University Press

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

Emily Dickinson
Agony, Despair, Safe
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

Emily Dickinson
Sweet, Heart, Snow
Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Distance, Years
Complete Poems, no.1742 (first published 1896).

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

Emily Dickinson
Life, Past, Sea
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.72, Harvard University Press

a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

Emily Dickinson
Sick, Sacred, Rooms
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.302, Courier Corporation

... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

Emily Dickinson
Depression, Space, Soul
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.141, Harvard University Press

Spring is the Period Express from God.

Emily Dickinson
Spring, Periods
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1117, Delphi Classics

Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?

Emily Dickinson
Worry, Anguish
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

Emily Dickinson
Bars, Evening, Flocks
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

Emily Dickinson
Dog, Fame, Forsake
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.174, Harvard University Press

The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until

Emily Dickinson
Thinking, Diligence, Without Hope
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Emily Dickinson
Joy, Victory, Poverty
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.8, First Avenue Editions

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Past, Joy
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press

What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star

Emily Dickinson
Stars, Assault, Creatures
'What Soft - Cherubic Creatures' (c.1862)

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Omnipotence, Alive
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.381, Harvard University Press

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
Heaven, Mind, Architect
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

Emily Dickinson
Journey, Feet, Odd
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.198, First Avenue Editions

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.

Emily Dickinson
Sea, Saws, Memes

An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

Emily Dickinson
Spring, Flower, Twilight
Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

Emily Dickinson
Long, Darkness, Shadow
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.223, Harvard University Press

AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

Emily Dickinson
Yellow, Waiting, Sunrise
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.760, Harvard University Press

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Emily Dickinson
Book, Mushrooms, Today
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.525, Harvard University Press

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Emily Dickinson
Memories, Jubilee, Bells
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

Emily Dickinson
Hands, World, Pebbles
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.805, Delphi Classics

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