Death Is Potential to That Man, di Emily Dickinson

Death Is Potential to That Man

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Death is potential to that Man

Who dies—and to his friend—

Beyond that—unconspicuous

To Anyone but God—

Of these Two—God remembers

The longest—for the friend—

Is integral—and therefore

Itself dissolved—of God—

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377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—

958 We met as Sparks—Diverging Flint… Sent various—scattered ways— We parted as the Central Flint Were cloven with an Adze—

XLV DELIGHT becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain.

363 I went to thank Her— But She Slept— Her Bed—a funneled Stone— With Nosegays at the Head and Fo…

793 Grief is a Mouse— And chooses Wainscot in the Breas… For His Shy House— And baffles quest—

104 Where I have lost, I softer tread… I sow sweet flower from garden bed… I pause above that vanished head And mourn.

I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,

Me prove it now—Whoever doubt Me stop to prove it—now— Make haste—the Scruple! Death be… For Opportunity— The River reaches to my feet—

223 I Came to buy a smile—today— But just a single smile— The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well—

315 He fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on— He stuns you by degrees—

322 There came a Day at Summer’s full… Entirely for me— I thought that such were for the… Where Resurrections—be—

148 All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of “Currer Bell” In quiet “Haworth” laid.

868 They ask but our Delight— The Darlings of the Soil And grant us all their Countenanc… For a penurious smile.

6 Frequently the wood are pink— Frequently are brown. Frequently the hills undress Behind my native town.

240 Ah, Moon—and Star! You are very far— But were no one Farther than you—