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This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

Emily Dickinson
Letting Go, Snow, Firsts
'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definetly what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I've met the thing before; it just reminded me-' twas all'-and came my way no more.

Emily Dickinson
Art, Years, Soul
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.34, Courier Corporation

You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

Emily Dickinson
Night, Fire, Flames

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Mind, Together
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.529, Harvard University Press

Forever is comprised of nows.

Emily Dickinson
Forever

I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

Emily Dickinson
Hurt, Wine, Years
Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

Emily Dickinson
Revenge, Hate, Enemy
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.489, Harvard University Press

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.

Emily Dickinson
Love Is, Vitality, Reform
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

Emily Dickinson
Loneliness, Flower, Angel
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.664, Harvard University Press

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

Emily Dickinson
Stars, Sea, Feet
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.369, Harvard University Press

The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

Emily Dickinson
Blue, Sea, Sky
Emily Dickinson (2009). “The Pocket Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Emily Dickinson
Communication, Perfect, Silence

Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --

Emily Dickinson
Shoes, Feet, Patents
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

Emily Dickinson
Flower, Play, Blonde
Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

Emily Dickinson
Fall, Autumn, Snow
Emily Dickinson (2007). “Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie”, p.62, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

My business is circumference.

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.387, Harvard University Press

Beauty crowds me till I die.

Emily Dickinson
Beauty, Crowds, Dies
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1934, Delphi Classics

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

Emily Dickinson
Atheism, Crime, Positive Atheism

Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.

Emily Dickinson
Party, Waiting, Eternity
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.662, Harvard University Press

Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

Emily Dickinson
May, Chivalry, Courtesy
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.505, Harvard University Press

Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer

Emily Dickinson
Prayer, Mean, Men
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.276, Harvard University Press

The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.

Emily Dickinson
Summer, Squirrels, Snow
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

Emily Dickinson
Feet, Broken, Atheism

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

Emily Dickinson
Prayer, Fall, Snow

Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

Emily Dickinson
Atheism, Hats, Positive Atheism

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