It Dropped So Low—In my Regard—, par Emily Dickinson

It Dropped So Low—In my Regard—

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 flung it—less

Than I denounced Myself,

For entertaining Plated Wares

Upon My Silver Shelf—

964 “Unto Me?” I do not know you— Where may be your House? “I am Jesus—Late of Judea— Now—of Paradise”—

610 You’ll find—it when you try to die… The Easier to let go— For recollecting such as went— You could not spare—you know.

91 So bashful when I spied her! So pretty—so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find—

A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard— Till morning touching mountain—

503 Better—than Music! For I—who hea… I was used—to the Birds—before— This—was different—’Twas Translat… Of all tunes I knew—and more—

A Death blow is a Life blow to S… Who till they died, did not alive… Who had they lived, had died but w… They died, Vitality begun.

XXXIV NATURE is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon— Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee… Nay—Nature is Heaven.

253 You see I cannot see—your lifetim… I must guess— How many times it ache for me—toda… How many times for my far sake

201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar— Until the morning sun— When One—turned smiling to the la… Oh God! the Other One!

A Counterfeit– a Plated Person… I would not be - Whatever strata of Iniquity My Nature underlie - Truth is good Health - and Safet…

It stole along so stealthy Suspicion it was done Was dim as to the wealthy Beginning not to own -

463 I live with Him — I see His face… I go no more away For Visitor — or Sundown — Death's single privacy

A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky— A little purple—slipped between—

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

104 Where I have lost, I softer tread… I sow sweet flower from garden bed… I pause above that vanished head And mourn.