Tag: Emily Dickinson
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I started Early – Took my Dog
I started Early – Took my Dog –And visited the Sea –The Mermaids in the BasementCame out to look at me – And Frigates – in the Upper FloorExtended Hempen Hands –Presuming Me to be a Mouse –Aground – opon the Sands – But no Man moved Me – till the TideWent past my simple Shoe –And past my Apron – and…
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Glee—the Great Storm Is Over
GLEE! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls,— Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, “But the…
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Never Forget that the World is Beautiful
You, and I, should read more poetry. Your thoughts don’t have words every day They come a single time Like signal esoteric sips Of the communion Wine Which while you taste so native seems So easy so to be You cannot comprehend its price Nor its infrequency Emily Dickinson, 1452 Never forget that the world…
Dan Yingst 