Emily Dickinson Flashcards

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1
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Kept beating - beating - till I thought

My mind was going numb

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2
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As all the Heavens were a Bell,

And Being, but an Ear

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3
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And hit a world at every plunge

And finished knowing - then -

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280

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4
Q

Like one in danger, Cautious,

I offered him a Crumb

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5
Q

Than Oars divide the Ocean,

Too silver for a seam -

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328

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6
Q

The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,

And yesterday, or Centuries before?

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7
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This is the Hour of Lead

Remembered, if outlived,

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8
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And then hopped sidewise to the Wall

To let a Beetle pass -

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9
Q

The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -

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10
Q

A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone -

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11
Q

I often wonder he
Can stand so close and look so bold
At what is awe to me.

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12
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Related somehow they may be

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13
Q

Except the Dying - this to Us

Made Nature different

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1100

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14
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It was a narrow time -

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15
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Bent to the Water, struggled scarce -

Consented, and was dead -

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16
Q

A Floor too cool for Corn -

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986

17
Q

When stooping to secure it

It wrinkled, and was gone

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986

18
Q

Myself - the Term between -

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721

19
Q

In perfect - pauseless Monarchy

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721

20
Q

And every time I speak for Him

A

754

21
Q

At Recess - in the Ring

A

712

22
Q

Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity -

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712

23
Q

Than its interior Confronting-

That Cooler Host.

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670

24
Q

Assassin hid in our Apartment

Be Horror’s least.

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670

25
Q

And yet, it tasted, like them all,

The Figures I have seen

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510

26
Q

As if my life were shaven

And fitted to a frame,

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510

27
Q

Much Gesture, from the Pulpit -

Strong Hallelujahs roll -

A

501

28
Q

And could not breathe without a key

A

510

29
Q

I willed my keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly

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465

30
Q

When it comes, the Landscape listens-

Shadows - hold their breath -

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