Heaven Is So Far of the Mind, by Emily Dickinson

Heaven Is So Far of the Mind

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Heaven is so far of the Mind

That were the Mind dissolved—

The Site—of it—by Architect

Could not again be proved—

’Tis vast—as our Capacity—

As fair—as our idea—

To Him of adequate desire

No further ’tis, than Here—

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376 Of Course—I prayed— And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird—had stamped her foot—

The Hills in Purple syllables The Day’s Adventures tell To little Groups of Continents Just going Home from School.

804 No Notice gave She, but a Change… No Message, but a Sigh— For Whom, the Time did not suffic… That She should specify.

March is the Month of Expectation… The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness -

733 The Spirit is the Conscious Ear. We actually Hear When We inspect—that’s audible— That is admitted—Here—

983 Ideals are the Fairly Oil With which we help the Wheel But when the Vital Axle turns The Eye rejects the Oil.

257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—

447 Could—I do more—for Thee— Wert Thou a Bumble Bee— Since for the Queen, have I— Nought but Bouquet?

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—

209 With thee, in the Desert— With thee in the thirst— With thee in the Tamarind wood— Leopard breathes—at last!

195 For this—accepted Breath— Through it—compete with Death— The fellow cannot touch this Crow… By it—my title take—

LXI EACH life converges to some cent… Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal,

189 It’s such a little thing to weep— So short a thing to sigh— And yet—by Trades—the size of the… We men and women die!

424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—

188 Make me a picture of the sun— So I can hang it in my room— And make believe I’m getting warm When others call it “Day”!