Teach Him – When He makes the names –, by Emily Dickinson | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous

Teach Him – When He makes the names –

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Teach Him – When He makes the names –

Such an one – to say –

On his babbling – Berry – lips –

As should sound – to me –

Were my Ear – as near his nest –

As my thought – today –

As should sound—

“Forbid us not” –

Some like “Emily.”

843 I made slow Riches but my Gain Was steady as the Sun And every Night, it numbered more Than the preceding One

971 Robbed by Death—but that was easy… To the failing Eye I could hold the latest Glowing— Robbed by Liberty

Those fair—fictitious People— The Women—plucked away From our familiar Lifetime— The Men of Ivory— Those Boys and Girls, in Canvas—

424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—

668 “Nature” is what we see— The Hill—the Afternoon— Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee— Nay—Nature is Heaven—

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

705 Suspense—is Hostiler than Death— Death—tho’soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increas… Suspense—does not conclude –

There cam a Wind like a Bugle - It quivered through the Grass And a Green Chill upon the Heat So ominous did pass We barred the Windows and the Doo…

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—

765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity

A chilly Peace infests the Grass The Sun respectful lies - Not any Trance of industry These shadows scrutinize - Whose Allies go no more astray

20 Distrustful of the Gentian— And just to turn away, The fluttering of her fringes Child my perfidy—

886 These tested Our Horizon— Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude.

402 I pay—in Satin Cash— You did not state—your price— A Petal, for a Paragraph It near as I can guess—

246 Forever at His side to walk— The smaller of the two! Brain of His Brain— Blood of His Blood—