He forgot—and I—remembered—, por Emily Dickinson

He forgot—and I—remembered—

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He forgot—and I—remembered—

’Twas an everyday affair—

Long ago as Christ and Peter—

“Warmed them” at the “Temple fire.”

“Thou wert with him”—quoth “the Damsel”?

“No”—said Peter, ’twasn’t me—

Jesus merely “looked” at Peter—

Could I do aught else—to Thee?

Ended, ere it begun - The Title was scarcely told When the Preface perished from Co… The Story, unrevealed - Had it been mine, to print!

XLVI A THOUGHT went up my mind to—d… That I have had before, But did not finish,—some way back, I could not fix the year,

307 The One who could repeat the Summ… Were greater than itself—though H… Minutest of Mankind should be— And He—could reproduce the Sun—

660 ’Tis good—the looking back on Gri… To re-endure a Day— We thought the Mighty Funeral— Of All Conceived Joy—

498 I envy Seas, whereon He rides— I envy Spokes of Wheels Of Chariots, that Him convey— I envy Crooked Hills

966 All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One— All forsook, for just a Stranger’… New Accompanying—

They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…

407 If What we could—were what we wou… Criterion—be small— It is the Ultimate of Talk— The Impotence to Tell—

‘Heavenly Father’ - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us - seems to us

251 Over the fence— Strawberries—grow— Over the fence— I could climb—if I tried, I know—

437 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them. They fling their Speech

A Word dropped careless on a Page May stimulate an eye When folded in perpetual seam The Wrinkled Maker lie Infection in the sentence breeds

These Fevered Days—to take them t… Where Waters cool around the moss… And shade is all that devastates t… Seems it sometimes this would be a…

933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words

XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.