A Word dropped careless on a Page, by Emily Dickinson

A Word dropped careless on a Page

May stimulate an eye

When folded in perpetual seam

The Wrinkled Maker lie

Infection in the sentence breeds

We may inhale Despair

At distances of Centuries

From the Malaria -

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

25 She slept beneath a tree— Remembered but by me. I touched her Cradle mute— She recognized the foot—

645 Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen— A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs—between—

603 He found my Being—set it up— Adjusted it to place— Then carved his name—upon it— And bade it to the East

755 No Bobolink—reverse His Singing When the only Tree Ever He minded occupying By the Farmer be—

743 The Birds reported from the South… A News express to Me— A spicy Charge, My little Posts— But I am deaf—Today—

201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar— Until the morning sun— When One—turned smiling to the la… Oh God! the Other One!

11 I never told the buried gold Upon the hill—that lies— I saw the sun—his plunder done Crouch low to guard his prize.

725 Where Thou art—that—is Home— Cashmere—or Calvary—the same— Degree—or Shame— I scarce esteem Location’s Name—

247 What would I give to see his face… I’d give—I’d give my life—of cour… But that is not enough! Stop just a minute—let me think!

684 Best Gains—must have the Losses’… To constitute them—Gains—

The dying need but little, dear,— A glass of water’s all, A flower’s unobtrusive face To punctuate the wall, A fan, perhaps, a friend’s regret,

262 The lonesome for they know not Wh… The Eastern Exiles—be— Who strayed beyond the Amber line Some madder Holiday—

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

Two butterflies went out at noon And waltzed above a stream, Then stepped straight through the… And rested on a beam; And then together bore away