Emily Dickinson

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WIDTH="276"><div> <A HREF="#the_day_came_slow" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>The Day Came Slow</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#apparently_with_no_surprise" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>Apparently with no Surprise</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#there_s_a_certain_slant_of_light" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>There's a Certain Slant of Light</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="276"><div> <A HREF="#deathe_sets_a_thing" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>Death Sets a Thing</B></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="276"><div> <A HREF="#we_like_march" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>We Like march</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#hope_is_the_thing_with_feathers" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>Hope is the thing with Feathers</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="276"><div> <A HREF="#wild_nights" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>Wild Nights</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#my_letter_to_the_world" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U><B>My Letter to the World</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="276"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="276" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="hope_is_the_thing_with_feathers"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Hope is the thing with Feathers</B></div> <bR> <div> Hope is the thing with feathers</div> <div> That perches in the soul,</div> <div> And sings the tune without the words,</div> <div> And never stops at all,</div> <bR> <div> And sweetest in the gale is heard;</div> <div> And sore must be the storm</div> <div> That could abash the little bird</div> <div> That kept so many warm.</div> <bR> <div> I've heard it in the chillest land</div> <div> And on the strangest sea;</div> <div> Yet, never, in extremity,</div> <div> It asked a crumb of me.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="there_s_a_certain_slant_of_light"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>There's a Certain Slant of Light</B></div> <bR> <div> There's a certain slant of light,</div> <div> On winter afternoons,</div> <div> That oppresses, like the weight</div> <div> Of cathedral tunes.</div> <bR> <div> Heavenly hurt it gives us;</div> <div> We can find no scar,</div> <div> But internal difference</div> <div> Where the meanings are.</div> <bR> <div> None may teach it anything,</div> <div> 'Tis the seal, despair,-</div> <div> An imperial affliction</div> <div> Sent us of the air.</div> <bR> <div> When it comes, the landscape listens,</div> <div> Shadows hold their breath;</div> <div> When it goes, 't is like the distance</div> <div> On the look of death.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="my_letter_to_the_world"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>My Letter to the World</B></div> <bR> <div> This is my letter to the world,</div> <div> That never wrote to me,</div> <div> The simple news that Nature told,</div> <div> With tender majesty.</div> <bR> <div> Her message is committed</div> <div> To hands I cannot see;</div> <div> For love of her, sweet countrymen,</div> <div> Judge tenderly of me!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="wild_nights"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Wild Nights</B></div> <bR> <div> Wild Nights! Wild Nights!</div> <div> Were I with thee,</div> <div> Wild Nights should be</div> <div> Our luxury!</div> <bR> <div> Futile the winds</div> <div> To a heart in port, --</div> <div> Done with the compass,</div> <div> Done with the chart!</div> <bR> <div> Rowing in Eden!</div> <div> Ah! the sea!</div> <div> Might I but moor</div> <div> To-night in Thee!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="a_narrow_fellow_in_the_grass"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>A Narrow Fellow in the Grass</B></div> <bR> <div> A narrow fellow in the grass</div> <div> Occasionally rides;</div> <div> You may have met him,--did you not,</div> <div> His notice sudden is.</div> <bR> <div> The grass divides as with a comb,</div> <div> A spotted shaft is seen;</div> <div> And then it closes at your feet</div> <div> And opens further on.</div> <bR> <div> He likes a boggy acre,</div> <div> A floor too cool for corn.</div> <div> Yet when a child, and barefoot,</div> <div> I more than once, at morn,</div> <bR> <div> Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash</div> <div> Unbraiding in the sun,--</div> <div> When, stooping to secure it,</div> <div> It wrinkled, and was gone.</div> <bR> <div> Several of nature's people</div> <div> I know, and they know me;</div> <div> I feel for them a transport</div> <div> Of cordiality;</div> <bR> <div> But never met this fellow,</div> <div> Attended or alone,</div> <div> Without a tighter breathing,</div> <div> And zero at the bone.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="deathe_sets_a_thing"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Death Sets a Thing</B></div> <bR> <div> Death sets a thing significant</div> <div> The eye had hurried by,</div> <div> Except a perished creature</div> <div> Entreat us tenderly</div> <bR> <div> To ponder little workmanships</div> <div> In crayon or in wool,</div> <div> With "This was last her fingers did,"</div> <div> Industrious until</div> <bR> <div> The thimble weighed too heavy,</div> <div> The stitches stopped themselves,</div> <div> And then 't was put among the dust</div> <div> Upon the closet shelves.</div> <div> A book I have, a friend gave,</div> <div> Whose pencil, here and there,</div> <div> Had notched the place that pleased him,--</div> <div> At rest his fingers are.</div> <bR> <div> Now, when I read, I read not,</div> <div> For interrupting tears</div> <div> Obliterate the etchings</div> <div> Too costly for repairs.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="we_like_march"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>We Like march</B></div> <bR> <div> We like March, his shoes are purple,</div> <div> He is new and high;</div> <div> Makes he mud for dog and peddler,</div> <div> Makes he forest dry;</div> <div> Knows the adder's tongue his coming,</div> <div> And begets her spot.</div> <div> Stands the sun so close and mighty</div> <div> That our minds are hot</div> <div> . News is he of all the others;</div> <div> Bold it were to die</div> <div> With the blue-birds buccaneering</div> <div> On his British sky.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="apparently_with_no_surprise"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Apparently with no Surprise</B></div> <bR> <div>         Apparently with no surprise,</div> <div>         To any happy flower, </div> <div>         The frost beheads it at its play,</div> <div>         In accidental power.</div> <div>         The blond assassin passes on.</div> <div>         The sun proceeds unmoved,</div> <div>         To measure off another day,</div> <div>         For an approving God.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_day_came_slow"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Day Came Slow</B></div> <bR> <div>       The day came slow, till five o'clock,</div> <div>         Then sprang before the hills,</div> <div>         Like hindered rubies, or the light,</div> <div>         A sudden musket spills.</div> <bR> <div>         The purple could not keep the east.</div> <div>         The sunrise shook from fold.</div> <div>         Like breadths of topaz, packed a night,</div> <div>         The lady just unrolled.</div> <bR> <div>         The happy winds their timbrels took;</div> <div>         The birds in docile rows,</div> <div>         Arranged themselves around their prince.</div> <div>         (The wind is prince of those.)</div> <bR> <div>         The orchard sparkled like a Jew,---</div> <div>         How mighty 'twas to stay, </div> <div>         A guest in this stupendous place,</div> <div>         The parlor of the day.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dickenson_m.htm" TITLE="Emily Dickinson"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=30 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="516" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Liquid Thoughts"><U><I>Liquid Thoughts</I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="47"><div> <A HREF="angst.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Angst "><U><I>Angst </I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="42"><div> <A HREF="dark.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dark"><U><I>Dark</I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="45"><div> <A HREF="humor.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Humor "><U><I>Humor </I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="inspirational.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Inspirational "><U><I>Inspirational </I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="35"><div> <A HREF="life.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life "><U><I>Life </I></U></A><I> </I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="love.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romantic"><U><I>Romantic</I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="48"><div> <A HREF="nature.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nature "><U><I>Nature </I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="48"><div> <A HREF="people.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="People "><U><I>People </I></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>