I Want—It Pleaded—all Its Life, by Emily Dickinson

I Want—It Pleaded—all Its Life

“I want”—it pleaded—All its life—

I want—was chief it said

When Skill entreated it—the last—

And when so newly dead—

I could not deem it late—to hear

That single—steadfast sigh—

The lips had placed as with a “Please”

Toward Eternity—

Too cold is this To warm with Sun - Too stiff to bended be, To joint this Agate were a work - Outstaring Masonry -

Image of Light, Adieu - Thanks for the interview - So long– so short – Preceptor of the whole - Coeval Cardinal -

The Grass so little has to do ' A Sphere of simple Green ' With only Butterflies to brood And Bees to entertain ' And stir all day to pretty Tunes

A fuzzy fellow, without feet, Yet doth exceeding run! Of velvet, is his Countenance, And his Complexion, dun! Sometime, he dwelleth in the grass…

929 How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way— Of River or of Ridge beyond Was no discovery.

Delight becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain. The mountaln at a given distance

49 I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!

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!

899 Herein a Blossom lies— A Sepulchre, between— Cross it, and overcome the Bee— Remain—'tis but a Rind.

737 The Moon was but a Chin of Gold A Night or two ago— And now she turns Her perfect Fac… Upon the World below—

XLIX WE outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer, Till it an antique fashion shows Like costumes grandsires wore.

408 Unit, like Death, for Whom? True, like the Tomb, Who tells no secret Told to Him—

God permit industrious angels Afternoons to play. I met one,—forgot my school-mates, All, for him, straightaway. God calls home the angels promptly

942 Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Wint… I admonish Thee

‘Faith’ is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see’— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.