Emily Dickinson Flashcards
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb
280
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear
280
And hit a world at every plunge
And finished knowing - then -
280
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
328
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam -
328
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And yesterday, or Centuries before?
341
This is the Hour of Lead
Remembered, if outlived,
341
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass -
328
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
341
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone -
341
I often wonder he
Can stand so close and look so bold
At what is awe to me.
1400
Related somehow they may be
1400
Except the Dying - this to Us
Made Nature different
1100
It was a narrow time -
1100
Bent to the Water, struggled scarce -
Consented, and was dead -
1100
A Floor too cool for Corn -
986
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled, and was gone
986
Myself - the Term between -
721
In perfect - pauseless Monarchy
721
And every time I speak for Him
754
At Recess - in the Ring
712
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity -
712
Than its interior Confronting-
That Cooler Host.
670
Assassin hid in our Apartment
Be Horror’s least.
670
And yet, it tasted, like them all,
The Figures I have seen
510
As if my life were shaven
And fitted to a frame,
510
Much Gesture, from the Pulpit -
Strong Hallelujahs roll -
501
And could not breathe without a key
510
I willed my keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly
465
When it comes, the Landscape listens-
Shadows - hold their breath -
258
