I Like a Look of Agony, di Emily Dickinson

I Like a Look of Agony

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I like a look of Agony,

Because I know it’s true—

Men do not sham Convulsion,

Nor simulate, a Throe—

The Eyes glaze once—and that is Death—

Impossible to feign

The Beads upon the Forehead

By homely Anguish strung.

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715 The World—feels Dusty When We stop to Die— We want the Dew—then— Honors—taste dry—

XII I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

553 One Crucifixion is recorded—only— How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics— Or History—

A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard— Till morning touching mountain—

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

A drop fell on the apple tree Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook,

988 The Definition of Beauty is That Definition is none— Of Heaven, easing Analysis, Since Heaven and He are one.

130 These are the days when Birds com… A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resu…

A little bread—a crust—a crumb— A little trust—a demijohn— Can keep the soul alive— Not portly, mind! but breathing—wa… Conscious—as old Napoleon,

766 My Faith is larger than the Hills… So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wh… To show the Sun the way—

837 How well I knew Her not Whom not to know has been A Bounty in prospective, now Next Door to mine the Pain.

To mend each tattered Faith There is a needle fair Though no appearance indicate ’Tis threaded in the Air And though it do not wear

Your Riches—taught me—Poverty. Myself—a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could… Till broad as Buenos Ayre— You drifted your Dominions—

866 Fame is the tine that Scholars le… Upon their Setting Names— The Iris not of Occident That disappears as comes—

Growth of Man—like Growth of Nat… Gravitates within— Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it— Bit it stir—alone— Each—its difficult Ideal