The Veins of Other Flowers, by Emily Dickinson

The Veins of Other Flowers

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The Veins of other Flowers

The Scarlet Flowers are

Till Nature leisure has for Terms

As “Branch,” and “Jugular.”

We pass, and she abides.

We conjugate Her Skill

While She creates and federates

Without a syllable.

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417 Is it dead—Find it— Out of sound—Out of sight— “Happy”? Which is wiser— You, or the Wind?

594 The Battle fought between the Sou… And No Man—is the One Of all the Battles prevalent— By far the Greater One—

285 The Robin’s my Criterion for Tun… Because I grow—where Robins do— But, were I Cuckoo born— I’d swear by him—

158 Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow?

276 Many a phrase has the English lan… I have heard but one— Low as the laughter of the Cricke… Loud, as the Thunder’s Tongue—

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…

153 Dust is the only Secret— Death, the only One You cannot find out all about In his “native town.”

952 A Man may make a Remark— In itself—a quiet thing That may furnish the Fuse unto a… In dormant nature—lain—

565 One Anguish—in a Crowd— A Minor thing—it sounds— And yet, unto the single Doe Attempted of the Hounds

397 When Diamonds are a Legend, And Diadems—a Tale— I Brooch and Earrings for Myself… Do sow, and Raise for sale—

LXII A DROP fell on the apple tree Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh.

815 The Luxury to apprehend The Luxury 'twould be To look at Thee a single time An Epicure of Me

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

The inundation of the Spring Enlarges every soul - It sweeps the tenement away But leaves the Water whole - In which the soul at first estrang…

282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—