Who Court Obtain Within Himself, par Emily Dickinson

Who Court Obtain Within Himself

803

Who Court obtain within Himself

Sees every Man a King—

And Poverty of Monarchy

Is an interior thing—

No Man depose

Whom Fate Ordain—

And Who can add a Crown

To Him who doth continual

Conspire against His Own

113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—

393 Did Our Best Moment last— ‘Twould supersede the Heaven— A few—and they by Risk—procure— So this Sort—are not given—

567 He gave away his Life— To Us—Gigantic Sum— A trifle—in his own esteem— But magnified—by Fame—

244 It is easy to work when the soul i… But when the soul is in pain— The hearing him put his playthings… Makes work difficult—then—

569 I reckon—when I count at all— First—Poets—Then the Sun— Then Summer—Then the Heaven of G… And then—the List is done—

882 A Shade upon the mind there passe… As when on Noon A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Remembering

844 Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide,

463 I live with Him — I see His face… I go no more away For Visitor — or Sundown — Death's single privacy

373 I’m saying every day “If I should be a Queen, tomorrow… I’d do this way— And so I deck, a little,

I see thee better—in the Dark— I do not need a Light— The Love of Thee—a Prism be— Excelling Violet— I see thee better for the Years

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee - When a Lover is an Owner Different is he - What he begged is then the Beggar…

804 No Notice gave She, but a Change… No Message, but a Sigh— For Whom, the Time did not suffic… That She should specify.

There is another Loneliness That many die without - Not want of friend occasions it Or circumstances of Lot But nature, sometimes, sometimes t…

334 All the letters I can write Are not fair as this— Syllables of Velvet— Sentences of Plush,

10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.