It Dropped So Low—In my Regard—, di 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—

How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure

619 Glee—The great storm is over— Four—have recovered the Land— Forty gone down together— Into the boiling Sand.

748 Autumn—overlooked my Knitting— Dyes—said He—have I— Could disparage a Flamingo— Show Me them—said I—

LV I envy seas whereon he rides, I envy spokes of wheels Of chariots that him convey, I envy speechless hills

Revolution is the Pod Systems rattle from When the Winds of Will are stirre… Excellent is Bloom But except its Russet Base

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

428 Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture—we discover— Or a splintered Crown—

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.

850 I sing to use the Waiting My Bonnet but to tie And shut the Door unto my House No more to do have I

Escape is such a thankful Word I often in the Night Consider it unto myself No spectacle in sight Escape - it is the Basket

CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.

LX The grass so little has to do,— A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain,

422 More Life—went out—when He went Than Ordinary Breath— Lit with a finer Phosphor— Requiring in the Quench—

51 I often passed the village When going home from school— And wondered what they did there— And why it was so still—

’Twas Crisis—All the length had p… That dull—benumbing time There is in Fever or Event— And now the Chance had come— The instant holding in its claw