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 fractured, less

Than I reviled myself

For entertaining plated wares

Upon my silver shelf.

740 You taught me Waiting with Myself… Appointment strictly kept’— You taught me fortitude of Fate’— This’—also’—I have learnt’—

684 Best Gains—must have the Losses’… To constitute them—Gains—

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ectasty. For each beloved hour

LXVI WHEN I hoped I feared, Since I hoped I dared; Everywhere alone As a church remain;

622 To know just how He suffered—woul… To know if any Human eyes were ne… To whom He could entrust His wave… Until it settle broad—on Paradise…

There is another Loneliness That many die without - Not want of friend occasions it Or circumstances of Lot But nature, sometimes, sometimes t…

294 The Doomed—regard the Sunrise With different Delight— Because—when next it burns abroad They doubt to witness it—

19 A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common summer’s morn— A flask of Dew—A Bee or two— A Breeze—a caper in the trees—

September’s Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets– Crows– and Retros… And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming -

628 They called me to the Window, for “ ’Twas Sunset”—Some one said— I only saw a Sapphire Farm— And just a Single Herd—

826 Love reckons by itself—alone— “As large as I”—relate the Sun To One who never felt it blaze— Itself is all the like it has—

702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—

997 Crumbling is not an instant’s Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation’s processes Are organized Decays.

282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—

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