Remembrance has a Rear and Front, by Emily Dickinson

Remembrance has a Rear and Front

Remembrance has a Rear and Front -

’Tis something like a House -

It has a Garret also

For Refuse and the Mouse.

Besides the deepest Cellar

That ever Mason laid -

Look to it by its Fathoms

Ourselves be not pursued -

528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!

181 I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? You’ll know it by the Row of Star… Around its forehead bound.

918 Only a Shrine, but Mine— I made the Taper shine— Madonna dim, to whom all Feet may… Regard a Nun—

The Notice that is called the Spr… Is but a month from here - Put up my Heart thy Hoary work And take a Rosy Chair. Not any House the Flowers keep -

695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—

163 Tho’ my destiny be Fustian— Hers be damask fine— Tho’ she wear a silver apron— I, a less divine—

643 I could suffice for Him, I knew— He—could suffice for Me— Yet Hesitating Fractions—Both Surveyed Infinity—

513 Like Flowers, that heard the news… But never deemed the dripping priz… Awaited their—low Brows— Or Bees—that thought the Summer’s…

44 If she had been the Mistletoe And I had been the Rose— How gay upon your table My velvet life to close—

367 Over and over, like a Tune— The Recollection plays— Drums off the Phantom Battlements Cornets of Paradise—

XXVI THE brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ’T were easier for you

707 The Grace—Myself—might not obtain… Confer upon My flower— Refracted but a Countenance— For I—inhabit Her—

369 She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away— Intending to return— But not so soon—

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

404 How many Flowers fail in Wood— Or perish from the Hill— Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful—