He found my Being—set it up—, di Emily Dickinson

He found my Being—set it up—

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He found my Being—set it up—

Adjusted it to place—

Then carved his name—upon it—

And bade it to the East

Be faithful—in his absence—

And he would come again—

With Equipage of Amber—

That time—to take it Home—

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GLEE! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation!

Why – do they shut Me out of Heav… Did I sing – too loud? But – I can say a little “minor” Timid as a Bird! Wouldn’t the Angels try me –

Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought A further force of life

753 My Soul—accused me—And I quailed… As Tongue of Diamond had reviled All else accused me—and I smiled— My Soul—that Morning—was My frie…

XLII SURGEONS must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,—Life!

1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.

54 If I should die, And you should live— And time should gurgle on— And morn should beam—

190 He was weak, and I was strong—the… So He let me lead him in— I was weak, and He was strong the… So I let him lead me—Home.

703 Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird—reach it! Curve by Curve—Sweep by Sweep— Round the Steep Air—

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

760 Most she touched me by her mutenes… Most she won me by the way She presented her small figure— Plea itself—for Charity—

504 You know that Portrait in the Moo… So tell me who ’tis like— The very Brow—the stooping eyes— A fog for—Say—Whose Sake?

643 I could suffice for Him, I knew— He—could suffice for Me— Yet Hesitating Fractions—Both Surveyed Infinity—

776 The Color of a Queen, is this— The Color of a Sun At setting—this and Amber— Beryl—and this, at Noon—

327 Before I got my eye put out I liked as well to see— As other Creatures, that have Eye… And know no other way—