If all the griefs I am to have, di Emily Dickinson

If all the griefs I am to have

Would only come today,

I am so happy I believe

They’d laugh and run away.

If all the joys I am to have

Would only come today,

They could not be so big as this

That happens to me now.

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283 A Mien to move a Queen— Half Child—Half Heroine— An Orleans in the Eye That puts its manner by

It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured…

140 An altered look about the hills— A Tyrian light the village fills— A wider sunrise in the morn— A deeper twilight on the lawn—

145 This heart that broke so long— These feet that never flagged— This faith that watched for star i… Give gently to the dead—

122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—

636 The Way I read a Letter’s—this— ’Tis first—I lock the Door— And push it with my fingers—next— For transport it be sure—

240 Ah, Moon—and Star! You are very far— But were no one Farther than you—

CXXVIII I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.

820 All Circumstances are the Frame In which His Face is set— All Latitudes exist for His Sufficient Continent—

859 A doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.

345 Funny—to be a Century— And see the People—going by— I—should die of the Oddity— But then—I’m not so staid—as He—

911 Too little way the House must lie From every Human Heart That holds in undisputed Lease A white inhabitant—

721 Behind Me’—dips Eternity’— Before Me’—Immortality’— Myself’—the Term between’— Death but the Drift of Eastern G…

266 This—is the land—the Sunset washe… These—are the Banks of the Yellow… Where it rose—or whither it rushes… These—are the Western Mystery!

321 Of all the Sounds despatched abro… There’s not a Charge to me Like that old measure in the Boug… That phraseless Melody—