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The Soul selects her own Society.

Emily Dickinson

Soul

"The Soul selects her own society" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Emily Dickinson

Play, Soul, Easy

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.499, Delphi Classics

The Soul should always stand ajar.

Emily Dickinson

Soul, Experience, Ecstatic Love

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

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Emily Dickinson

Doors, Soul, Majority

"The Soul selects her own society" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

Emily Dickinson

Soul, Suffering, Teeth

Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.385, Harvard University Press

The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

Emily Dickinson

Loneliness, Dark, Soul

Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.588, Harvard University Press

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Emily Dickinson

Doors, Feet, Soul

'Elysium is as far as to' (c.1882)

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

Emily Dickinson

Space, Sea, Soul

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1977, Delphi Classics

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

Emily Dickinson

Eye, Soul, Awful

c.1864 Complete Poems, no.894 (first published 1945).

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

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

Emily Dickinson

White, Soul, Heat

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.180, Harvard University Press

... 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

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