The Rainbow Never Tells Me, by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

The Rainbow Never Tells Me

The rainbow never tells me

That gust and storm are by,

Yet is she more convincing

Than Philosophy.

My flowers turn from Forums—

Yet eloquent declare

What Cato couldn’t prove me

Except the birds were here!

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270 One Life of so much Consequence! Yet I—for it—would pay— My Soul’s entire income— In ceaseless—salary—

Suspense – is Hostiler than Death –

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

You left me—Sire—two Legacies

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Talk With Prudence to a Beggar

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Mine—by the Right of the White Election!

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!

Midsummer, Was It, When They Died

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I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)

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Purple—is fashionable twice—

980 Purple—is fashionable twice— This season of the year, And when a soul perceives itself To be an Emperor.

All I May, If Small

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While It Is Alive

491 While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood

Such Is the Force of Happiness

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