Part Five: The Single Hound, di Emily Dickinson

Part Five: The Single Hound

THE LARGEST fire ever known

Occurs each afternoon,

Discovered is without surprise,

Proceeds without concern:

Consumes, and no report to men,

An Occidental town,

Rebuilt another morning

To be again burned down.

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CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.

His Heart was darker than the sta… For that there is a morn But in this black Receptacle Can be no Bode of Dawn

292 If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve—

827 The Only News I know Is Bulletins all Day From Immortality. The Only Shows I see—

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

225 Jesus! thy Crucifix Enable thee to guess The smaller size! Jesus! thy second face

64 Some Rainbow—coming from the Fair… Some Vision of the World Cashmer… I confidently see! Or else a Peacock’s purple Train

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,

941 The Lady feeds Her little Bird At rarer intervals— The little Bird would not dissent But meekly recognize

850 I sing to use the Waiting My Bonnet but to tie And shut the Door unto my House No more to do have I

I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,

91 So bashful when I spied her! So pretty—so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find—

Immured in Heaven! What a Cell! Let every Bondage be, Thou sweetest of the Universe, Like that which ravished thee!

532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—

908 ’Tis Sunrise—Little Maid—Hast T… No Station in the Day? ’Twas not thy wont, to hinder so— Retrieve thine industry—