And with what body do they come, por Emily Dickinson

And with what body do they come

‘And with what body do they come?’ -

Then they do come - Rejoice!

What Door– What Hour– Run– run– My Soul!

Illuminate the House!

‘Body!’ Then real– a Face and Eyes –

To know that it is them!

Paul knew the Man that knew the News -

He passed through Bethlehem -

Dying at my music! Bubble! Bubble! Hold me till the Octave’s run! Quick! Burst the Windows! Ritardando!

I years had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine

A Wind that rose Though not a Leaf In any Forest stirred But with itself did cold engage Beyond the Realm of Bird -

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature will not tell the tale

62 “Sown in dishonor”! Ah! Indeed! May this “dishonor” be? If I were half so fine myself

133 As Children bid the Guest “Good… And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips… Then put their nightgowns on.

IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;

727 Precious to Me—She still shall be… Though She forget the name I bear… The fashion of the Gown I wear— The very Color of My Hair—

To die—takes just a little while— They say it doesn't hurt— It's only fainter—by degrees— And then—it's out of sight— A darker Ribbon—for a Day—

501 This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond— Invisible, as Music— But positive, as Sound—

79 Going to Heaven! I don’t know when— Pray do not ask me how! Indeed I’m too astonished

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

396 There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain— ’Tis Pain’s Successor—When the S… Has suffered all it can—

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend— Or the most agonizing Spy— An Enemy—could send— Secure against its own—

855 To own the Art within the Soul The Soul to entertain With Silence as a Company And Festival maintain