Size circumscribes—it has no room, by Emily Dickinson

Size circumscribes—it has no room

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Size circumscribes—it has no room

For petty furniture—

The Giant tolerates no Gnat

For Ease of Gianture—

Repudiates it, all the more—

Because intrinsic size

Ignores the possibility

Of Calumnies—or Flies.

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237 I think just how my shape will ris… When I shall be “forgiven”— Till Hair—and Eyes—and timid Hea… Are out of sight—in Heaven—

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

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go

An everywhere of silver, With ropes of sand To keep it from effacing The track called land.

284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…

673 The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon the face of Noon…

892 Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstan… ’Tis well the name and age

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

LXXIII I ’LL tell you how the sun rose,— A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran.

63 If pain for peace prepares Lo, what “Augustan” years Our feet await! If springs from winter rise,

A still – Volcano – Life – That flickered in the night – When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight – A quiet – Earthquake Style –

497 He strained my faith— Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust— Did it then—yield?

300 ‘Morning’—means 'Milking’—to the… Dawn’—to the Teneriffe’— Dice’—to the Maid’— Morning means just Risk’—to the L…

452 The Malay—took the Pearl— Not—I—the Earl— I—feared the Sea—too much Unsanctified—to touch—

XLIII I LIKE to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step