Had we our senses, by Emily Dickinson

Had we our senses

But perhaps ’tis well they’re not at Home

So intimate with Madness

He’s liable with them

Had we the eyes without our Head—

How well that we are Blind—

We could not look upon the Earth—

So utterly unmoved—

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589 The Night was wide, and furnished… With but a single Star— That often as a Cloud it met— Blew out itself—for fear—

Departed to the judgment, A mighty afternoon; Great clouds like ushers leaning, Creation looking on. The flesh surrendered, cancelled

532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—

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

A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird the silence contradict

26 It’s all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fi… And all the meadows wide—

927 Absent Place—an April Day— Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow—

623 It was too late for Man— But early, yet, for God— Creation—impotent to help— But Prayer—remained—Our Side—

38 By such and such an offering To Mr. So and So, The web of live woven— So martyrs albums show!

183 I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometim… In a Cathedral Aisle, And understood no word it said— Yet held my breath, the while—

504 You know that Portrait in the Moo… So tell me who ’tis like— The very Brow—the stooping eyes— A fog for—Say—Whose Sake?

470 I am alive—I guess— The Branches on my Hand Are full of Morning Glory— And at my finger’s end—

539 The Province of the Saved Should be the Art—To save— Through Skill obtained in Themsel… The Science of the Grave

437 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them. They fling their Speech

796 Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy— For Greatness, that is ill at eas… In minor Company—