It Is an Honorable Thought,, por Emily Dickinson

It Is an Honorable Thought,

It is an honorable thought,

And makes one lift one’s hat,

As one encountered gentlefolk

Upon a daily street,

That we’ve immortal place,

Though pyramids decay,

And kingdoms, like the orchard,

Flit russetly away.

XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,

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?

382 For Death—or rather For the Things 'twould buy— This—put away Life’s Opportunity—

How Human Nature dotes On what it can’t detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct - Prospective is the friend

781 To wait an Hour—is long— If Love be just beyond— To wait Eternity—is short— If Love reward the end—

The Butterfly upon the Sky, That doesn’t know its Name And hasn’t any tax to pay And hasn’t any Home Is just as high as you and I,

651 So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate— Would a Smile’s minute bestowing

Abraham to kill him Was distinctly told’— Isaac was an Urchin’— Abraham was old’— Not a hesitation’—

526 To hear an Oriole sing May be a common thing— Or only a divine. It is not of the Bird

IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin

My Garden—like the Beach— Denotes there be—a Sea— That’s Summer— Such as These—the Pearls She fetches—such as Me

314 Nature—sometimes sears a Sapling— Sometimes—scalps a Tree— Her Green People recollect it When they do not die—

770 I lived on Dread— To Those who know The Stimulus there is In Danger—Other impetus

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