As by the Dead We Love to Sit, by Emily Dickinson

As by the Dead We Love to Sit

As by the dead we love to sit,

Become so wondrous dear—

As for the lost we grapple

Tho’ all the rest are here—

In broken mathematics

We estimate our prize

Vast—in its fading ration

To our penurious eyes!

544 The Martyr Poets’—did not tell’— But wrought their Pang in syllabl… That when their mortal name be num… Their mortal fate’—encourage Some…

LXIII Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair.

CXXVIII I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.

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

LXXIX I YEARS had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before

His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.

110 Artists wrestled here! Lo, a tint Cashmere! Lo, a Rose! Student of the Year!

858 This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life I mention it to you, When Sunrise through a fissure dr… The Day must follow too.

472 Except the Heaven had come so nea… So seemed to choose My Door— The Distance would not haunt me s… I had not hoped—before—

691 Would you like summer? Taste of o… Spices? Buy here! Ill! We have berries, for the par… Weary! Furloughs of down!

My nosegays are for captives; Dim, long-expectant eyes, Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till paradise. To such, if they should whisper

439 Undue Significance a starving man… To Food— Far off—He sighs—and therefore—Ho… And therefore—Good—

103 I have a King, who does not speak… So—wondering—thro’ the hours meek I trudge the day away— Half glad when it is night, and sl…

167 To learn the Transport by the Pai… As Blind Men learn the sun! To die of thirst—suspecting That Brooks in Meadows run!

646 I think to Live—may be a Bliss To those who dare to try— Beyond my limit to conceive— My lip—to testify—