Size circumscribes—it has no room, di 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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A PRECIOUS, mouldering pleasur… To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore… A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take,

669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—

7 The feet of people walking home With gayer sandals go— The Crocus—til she rises The Vassal of the snow—

577 If I may have it, when it’s dead, I’ll be contented—so— If just as soon as Breath is out It shall belong to me—

493 The World—stands—solemner—to me— Since I was wed—to Him— A modesty befits the soul That bears another’s—name—

XXXVIII THROUGH the straight pass of su… The martyrs even trod, Their feet upon temptation, Their faces upon God.

402 I pay—in Satin Cash— You did not state—your price— A Petal, for a Paragraph It near as I can guess—

LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography - Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time

450 Dreams—are well—but Waking’s bett… If One wake at morn— If One wake at Midnight—better— Dreaming—of the Dawn—

Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -

528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!

Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets,… Prodigal of blue, Spending scarlet like a woman,

474 They put Us far apart— As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula— We signified “These see”—

Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost