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Poems by Emily Dickinson

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Rest at Night

... Rest at Night The Sun from shining, ...

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Revolution is the Pod

... Excellent is BloomBut except its Russet Base ...

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Ribbons of the Year --

... Worn to Nature's Party onceThen, as flung aside ...

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Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun

... With Hundred Weights -- to spare --Too ponderous to suspect the snare ...

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Robbed by Death -- but that was easy --

... For the Brave Beloved --Fraud of Distance -- Fraud of Danger, ...

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Safe Despair it is that raves --

... Safe Despair it is that raves -- ...

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Said Death to Passion

... " Said Passion, through contracting Breaths ...

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Satisfaction -- is the Agent

... For Infinity.To possess, is past the instant ...

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September's Baccalaureate

... And a dissembling BreezeThat hints without assuming -- ...

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Shall I take thee, the Poet said

... There came unsummoned in --That portion of the Vision ...

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Shame is the shawl of Pink

... To keep it from infesting Eyes -- ...

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She could not live upon the Past

... And so she sought this sweet at last ...

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades

... How ill the Creatures bear --To Ache is human -- not polite -- ...

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She dwelleth in the Ground --

... The Universe -- Her Maid --To fetch Her Grace -- and Hue -- ...

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She hideth Her the last --

... The Closing of Her eyes --She doth Her Purple Work -- ...