Let me not mar that perfect Dream, por Emily Dickinson

Let me not mar that perfect Dream

By an Auroral stain

But so adjust my daily Night

That it will come again.

Not when we know, the Power accosts -

The Garment of Surprise

Was all our timid Mother wore

At Home - in Paradise.

260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—

987 The Leaves like Women interchange Exclusive Confidence— Somewhat of nods and somewhat Portentous inference.

No matter—now—Sweet— But when I’m Earl— Won’t you wish you’d spoken To that dull Girl? Trivial a Word—just—

968 Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance—Grace—to… With Summers, and with Winters, g… Some passing Year—A trait bestow

The Mushroom is the Elf of Plant… At Evening, it is not At Morning, in a Truffled Hut It stop opon a Spot As if it tarried always

601 A still—Volcano—Life— That flickered in the night— When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight—

The Snow that never drifts - The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now - So thorough in the Tree

A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dew

879 Each Second is the last Perhaps, recalls the Man Just measuring unconsciousness The Sea and Spar between.

778 This that would greet—an hour ago— Is quaintest Distance—now— Had it a Guest from Paradise— Nor glow, would it, nor bow—

Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.

814 One Day is there of the Series Termed Thanksgiving Day. Celebrated part at Table Part in Memory.

Each life converges to some centre Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal, Admitted scarcely to itself, it ma…

305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—