You left me—Sire—two Legacies, by Emily Dickinson

You left me—Sire—two Legacies

644

You left me—Sire—two Legacies—

A Legacy of Love

A Heavenly Father would suffice

Had He the offer of—

You left me Boundaries of Pain—

Capacious as the Sea—

Between Eternity and Time—

Your Consciousness—and Me—

Enjoyed this read? Treat us to a coffee!.
Your help allows us to exist.

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,

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—

627 The Tint I cannot take—is best— The Color too remote That I could show it in Bazaar— A Guinea at a sight—

900 What did They do since I saw The… Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the eagerness

542 I had no Cause to be awake— My Best—was gone to sleep— And Morn a new politeness took— And failed to wake them up—

A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird the silence contradict

459 A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface— Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace—

It is an honorable thought, And makes one lift one’s hat, As one encountered gentlefolk Upon a daily street, That we’ve immortal place,

Nature, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child, The feeblest or the waywardest, Her admonition mild In forest and the hill

252 I can wade Grief— Whole Pools of it— I’m used to that— But the least push of Joy

LXXXIII This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond — Invisible, as Music — But positive, as Sound —

All men for Honor hardest work But are not known to earn - Paid after they have ceased to wor… In Infamy or Urn -

‘They have not chosen me,’ he said… ‘But I have chosen them!’ Brave’—Broken hearted statement’— Uttered in Bethlehem! I could not have told it,

LXI EACH life converges to some cent… Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal,

914 I cannot be ashamed Because I cannot see The love you offer— Magnitude