Suspense – is Hostiler than Death –, di Emily Dickinson | poesie, saggi e racconti nel Poeticous

Suspense – is Hostiler than Death –

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Suspense—is Hostiler than Death—

Death—tho’soever Broad,

Is just Death, and cannot increase—

Suspense—does not conclude –

But perishes—to live anew—

But just anew to die—

Annihilation—plated fresh

With Immortality—

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,

853 When One has given up One’s life The parting with the rest Feels easy, as when Day lets go Entirely the West

451 The Outer—from the Inner Derives its Magnitude— ’Tis Duke, or Dwarf, according As is the Central Mood—

469 The Red—Blaze—is the Morning— The Violet—is Noon— The Yellow—Day—is falling— And after that—is none—

40 When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye— When I con the people

He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance

148 All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of “Currer Bell” In quiet “Haworth” laid.

110 Artists wrestled here! Lo, a tint Cashmere! Lo, a Rose! Student of the Year!

This quiet dust was gentlemen and… And lads and girls; Was laughter and ability and sighi… And frocks and curls; This passive place a summer’s nimb…

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

310 Give little Anguish— Lives will fret— Give Avalanches— And they’ll slant—

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since

168 If the foolish, call them “flowers… Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants “Classify” them It is just as well!

21 We lose—because we win— Gamblers—recollecting which Toss their dice again!

464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—