The Color of a Queen, Is This, by Emily Dickinson

The Color of a Queen, Is This

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The Color of a Queen, is this—

The Color of a Sun

At setting—this and Amber—

Beryl—and this, at Noon—

And when at night—Auroran widths

Fling suddenly on men—

’Tis this—and Witchcraft—nature keeps

A Rank—for Iodine—

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A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men,— Of earl and midge The privilege.

356 The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days— Until the Coronation came— And then—'twas Otherwise—

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee - When a Lover is an Owner Different is he - What he begged is then the Beggar…

The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain– And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep;

635 I think the longest Hour of all Is when the Cars have come— And we are waiting for the Coach— It seems as though the Time

I noticed People disappeared When but a little child - Supposed they visited remote Or settled Regions wild - But did because they died

Remorse– is Memory– awake - Her Parties all astir - A Presence of Departed Acts - At window– and at Door – Its Past - set down before the S…

849 The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate

Longing is like the Seed That wrestles in the Ground, Believing if it intercede It shall at length be found. The Hour, and the Clime -

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

XIII THE soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Abraham to kill him Was distinctly told’— Isaac was an Urchin’— Abraham was old’— Not a hesitation’—

434 To love thee Year by Year— May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease— However, dear,

This quiet dust was gentlemen and… And lads and girls; Was laughter and ability and sighi… And frocks and curls; This passive place a summer’s nimb…

966 All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One— All forsook, for just a Stranger’… New Accompanying—