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If the foolish, call them "flowers"

© Emily Dickinson

If the foolish, call them "flowers" --
Need the wiser, tell?
If the Savants "Classify" them
It is just as well!

If she had been the Mistletoe

© Emily Dickinson

If she had been the Mistletoe
And I had been the Rose --
How gay upon your table
My velvet life to close --

If my Bark sink

© Emily Dickinson

If my Bark sink
'Tis to another sea --
Mortality's Ground Floor
Is Immortality --

If it had no pencil

© Emily Dickinson

If it had no pencil
Would it try mine --
Worn -- now -- and dull -- sweet,
Writing much to thee.

If I'm lost -- now

© Emily Dickinson

If I'm lost -- now
That I was found --
Shall still my transport be --
That once -- on me -- those Jasper Gates
Blazed open -- suddenly --

If I may have it, when it's dead,

© Emily Dickinson

If I may have it, when it's dead,
I'll be contented -- so --
If just as soon as Breath is out
It shall belong to me --

If I could tell how glad I was

© Emily Dickinson

If I could tell how glad I was
I should not be so glad --
But when I cannot make the Force,
Nor mould it into Word,

If He were living -- dare I ask --

© Emily Dickinson

If He were living -- dare I ask --
And how if He be dead --
And so around the Words I went --
Of meeting them -- afraid --

If He dissolve -- then

© Emily Dickinson

If He dissolve -- then --
there is nothing -- more --
Eclipse -- at Midnight --
It was dark -- before --

If Blame be my side -- forfeit Me --

© Emily Dickinson

If Blame be my side -- forfeit Me --
But doom me not to forfeit Thee --
To forfeit Thee? The very name
Is sentence from Belief -- and House --

If anybody's friend be dead

© Emily Dickinson

If anybody's friend be dead
It's sharpest of the theme
The thinking how they walked alive --
At such and such a time --

If any sink, assure that this, now standing

© Emily Dickinson

If any sink, assure that this, now standing --
Failed like Themselves -- and conscious that it rose --
Grew by the Fact, and not the Understanding
How Weakness passed -- or Force -- arose --

I've seen a Dying Eye

© Emily Dickinson

I've seen a Dying Eye
Run round and round a Room --
In search of Something -- as it seemed --
Then Cloudier become --

I've nothing else -- to bring, You know

© Emily Dickinson

I've nothing else -- to bring, You know --
So I keep bringing These --
Just as the Night keeps fetching Stars
To our familiar eyes --

I've none to tell me to but Thee

I've none to tell me to but Thee
So when Thou failest, nobody.
It was a little tie --
It just held Two, nor those it held
Since Somewhere thy sweet Face has spilled
Beyond my Boundary --

I've heard an Organ talk, sometimes

I've heard an Organ talk, sometimes
In a Cathedral Aisle,
And understood no word it said --
Yet held my breath, the while --

I've got an arrow here.

I've got an arrow here.
Loving the hand that sent it
I the dart revere.

I've dropped my Brain -- My Soul is numb --

I've dropped my Brain -- My Soul is numb --
The Veins that used to run
Stop palsied -- 'tis Paralysis
Done perfecter on stone

I'm the little "Heart's Ease"!

I'm the little "Heart's Ease"!
I don't care for pouting skies!
If the Butterfly delay
Can I, therefore, stay away?

I'm saying every day

I'm saying every day
"If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" --
I'd do this way --
And so I deck, a little,