A Door Just Opened on a Street, par Emily Dickinson

A Door Just Opened on a Street

A door just opened on a street—

I, lost, was passing by—

An instant’s width of warmth disclosed

And wealth, and company.

The door as sudden shut, and I,

I, lost, was passing by,—

Lost doubly, but by contrast most,

Enlightening misery.

224 I've nothing else—to bring, You k… So I keep bringing These— Just as the Night keeps fetching… To our familiar eyes—

844 Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide,

892 Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstan… ’Tis well the name and age

222 When Katie walks, this simple pai… When Katie runs unwearied they fo… When Katie kneels, their loving h… Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, wit…

175 I have never seen “Volcanoes”— But, when Travellers tell How those old—phlegmatic mountains Usually so still—

455 Triumph—may be of several kinds— There’s Triumph in the Room When that Old Imperator—Death— By Faith

930 There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed— A Summer briefer than the first But tenderer indeed

523 Sweet—You forgot—but I remembered Every time—for Two— So that the Sum be never hindered Through Decay of You—

856 There is a finished feeling Experienced at Graves— A leisure of the Future— A Wilderness of Size.

822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone

810 Her Grace is all she has— And that, so least displays— One Art to recognize, must be, Another Art, to praise.

264 A Weight with Needles on the poun… To push, and pierce, besides— That if the Flesh resist the Heft… The puncture—coolly tries—

699 The Judge is like the Owl— I’ve heard my Father tell— And Owls do build in Oaks— So here’s an Amber Sill—

God permit industrious angels Afternoons to play. I met one,—forgot my school-mates, All, for him, straightaway. God calls home the angels promptly

305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—