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Emily Dickinson

My Cocoon Tightens, Colors Tease

MY cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I 'm feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.
 
A power of butterfly must be
The aptitude to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
 
So I must baffle at the hint
And cipher at the sign,
And make much blunder, if at last
I take the clew divine.

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Autres oeuvres par Emily Dickinson...
I Was the Slightest in the House

486 I was the slightest in the House— I took the smallest Room— At night, my little Lamp, and Boo… And one Geranium—
Sown in Dishonor

62 “Sown in dishonor”! Ah! Indeed! May this “dishonor” be? If I were half so fine myself
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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,—did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb,
Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness

942 Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Wint… I admonish Thee
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You left me—Sire—two Legacies

644 You left me—Sire—two Legacies— A Legacy of Love A Heavenly Father would suffice Had He the offer of—
In Winter in my Room

1670 In Winter in my Room I came upon a Worm— Pink, lank and warm— But as he was a worm
Going to Him! Happy Letter! Tell Him—

Going to him! Happy letter! Tell… Tell him the page I didn’t write; Tell him I only said the syntax, And left the verb and the pronoun… Tell him just how the fingers hurr…
In lands I never saw—they say

124 In lands I never saw—they say Immortal Alps look down— Whose Bonnets touch the firmament… Whose Sandals touch the town—
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The Whole of It Came Not at Once

762 The Whole of it came not at once— ’Twas Murder by degrees— A Thrust—and then for Life a chan… The Bliss to cauterize—
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Rearrange a 'Wife’s’ affection!

Rearrange a 'Wife’s’ affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness…
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Two Swimmers Wrestled on the Spar

201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar— Until the morning sun— When One—turned smiling to the la… Oh God! the Other One!
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’Twas warm—at first—like Us—

519 ’Twas warm—at first—like Us— Until there crept upon A Chill—like frost upon a Glass— Till all the scene—be gone.
Robbed by Death—but that was easy—

971 Robbed by Death—but that was easy… To the failing Eye I could hold the latest Glowing— Robbed by Liberty
Life LIX. I took my power in my hand

LIX I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.
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Defrauded I a Butterfly

730 Defrauded I a Butterfly— The lawful Heir—for Thee—
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