Poems by Emily Dickinson
She lay as if at play
... The Trick to start --Her dancing Eyes -- ajar -- ...
She rose as high as His Occasion
... And lower lay in low Westminster ...
She rose to His Requirement -- dropt
... Of Woman, and of Wife --If ought She missed in Her new Day, ...
She sights a Bird -- she chuckles --
... Her eyes increase to Balls --Her Jaws stir -- twitching -- hungry -- ...
She sped as Petals of a Rose
... Leaving on nature -- a Default ...
She staked her Feathers -- Gained an Arc --
... Of Envy, or of Men --And now, among Circumference -- ...
She's happy, with a new Content --
... As just apprenticed to the Air --She's tearful -- if she weep at all -- ...
Should you but fail at -- Sea
... Or rap -- at Paradise -- unheard ...
Silence is all we dread.
... There's Ransom in a Voice -- ...
Size circumscribes -- it has no room
... For Ease of Gianture --Repudiates it, all the more -- ...
Smiling back from Coronation
... Centuries ago --Had the Triumph no Conviction ...
Snow beneath whose chilly softness
... I admonish TheeBlanket Wealthier the Neighbor ...
So gay a Flower
... Is Beauty an Affliction -- then ...
So glad we are -- a Stranger'd deem
... Nor how Ourselves be justified -- ...
So large my Will
... Embarrasses Like gentle infamy --Affront to Him ...
