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Judge tenderly of me.

Judge tenderly of me.

Emily Dickinson
Judging
In R. N. Linscott (ed.) 'Selected Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson' (1959)

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Emily Dickinson
Expectations, Contentment, Gains
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

Emily Dickinson
Life, Heart, Night
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

Emily Dickinson
Sister, Sibling, Might
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

Emily Dickinson
Time, Pain, Sea
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.319, Harvard University Press

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

Emily Dickinson
Men, Dazzle, Blind
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

Emily Dickinson
Squirrels, Heaven, Afternoon
Source: www.npr.org

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

Emily Dickinson
Views, Giving, Forgive Me
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

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Emily Dickinson
Faith, Knowledge, Science
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Passion, Heart
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson
Sea, Land, Bird
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Heart, Firsts
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

Emily Dickinson
Life, Science, Doctors
"Surgeons must be very careful" l. 1 (ca. 1860)

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

Emily Dickinson
Feet, Dear, Vary
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.486, Harvard University Press

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

Emily Dickinson
Men, Agony, Suffering
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.66, First Avenue Editions

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson
Halloween, House, Brain
c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson
Idols, Cooking, Fickle
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

Emily Dickinson
Friendship, Happiness, Elysium
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

Emily Dickinson
World
Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.77, 1st World Publishing

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

Emily Dickinson
Fate, Luck, Gains
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.470, Harvard University Press

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Art
Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.

Emily Dickinson
Summer, Enchantment, Delight
Emily Dickinson, “The Last Of Summer Is Delight”

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

Emily Dickinson
Breathe, Dies
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.671, Harvard University Press

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Emily Dickinson
Kings, Spring, Insanity
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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