Ended, ere it begun -, par Emily Dickinson

Ended, ere it begun -

The Title was scarcely told

When the Preface perished from Consciousness

The Story, unrevealed -

Had it been mine, to print!

Had it been yours, to read!

That it was not Our privilege

The interdict of God -

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XXXIV WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind.

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go

363 I went to thank Her— But She Slept— Her Bed—a funneled Stone— With Nosegays at the Head and Fo…

949 Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the Beetle’s Cellar Under the Clover’s Root,

387 The sweetest Heresy received That Man and Woman know— Each Other’s Convert— Though the Faith accommodate but…

March is the Month of Expectation… The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness -

799 Despair’s advantage is achieved By suffering—Despair— To be assisted of Reverse One must Reverse have bore—

862 Light is sufficient to itself— If Others want to see It can be had on Window Panes Some Hours in the Day.

Tie the strings to my life, my Lo… Then I am ready to go! Just a look at the horses— Rapid! That will do! Put me in on the firmest side,

24 There is a morn by men unseen— Whose maids upon remoter green Keep their Seraphic May— And all day long, with dance and g…

546 To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it— Block it up With Other—and 'twill yawn the mo…

40 When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye— When I con the people

Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not found - Returns us not, but after time

VIII A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.

355 ’Tis Opposites—entice— Deformed Men—ponder Grace— Bright fires—the Blanketless— The Lost—Day’s face—