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I suppose the time will come

© Emily Dickinson

I suppose the time will come
Aid it in the coming
When the Bird will crowd the Tree
And the Bee be booming.

I sued the News -- yet feared -- the News

© Emily Dickinson

I sued the News -- yet feared -- the News
That such a Realm could be --
"The House not made with Hands" it was --
Thrown open wide to me --

I stepped from Plank to Plank

© Emily Dickinson

I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way
The Stars about my Head I felt
About my Feet the Sea.

I sometimes drop it, for a Quick --

© Emily Dickinson

I sometimes drop it, for a Quick --
The Thought to be alive --
Anonymous Delight to know --
And Madder -- to conceive --

I showed her Heights she never saw

© Emily Dickinson

I showed her Heights she never saw --
"Would'st Climb," I said?
She said -- "Not so" --
"With me --" I said -- With me?

I should not dare to be so sad

© Emily Dickinson

I should not dare to be so sad
So many Years again --
A Load is first impossible
When we have put it down --

I should have been too glad, I see

I should have been too glad, I see --
Too lifted -- for the scant degree
Of Life's penurious Round --
My little Circuit would have shamed
This new Circumference -- have blamed --
The homelier time behind.

I shall not murmur if at last

© Emily Dickinson

I shall not murmur if at last
The ones I loved below
Permission have to understand
For what I shunned them so --

I shall know why -- when Time is over

© Emily Dickinson

I shall know why -- when Time is over --
And I have ceased to wonder why --
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky --

I send you a decrepit flower

© Emily Dickinson

I send you a decrepit flower
That nature sent to me
At parting -- she was going south
And I designed to stay --

I saw the wind within her

© Emily Dickinson

I saw the wind within her
I knew it blew for me --
But she must buy my shelter
I asked Humility

I saw that the Flake was on it

© Emily Dickinson

I saw that the Flake was on it
But plotted with Time to dispute --
"Unchanged" I urged with a candor
That cost me my honest Heart --

I saw no Way -- The Heavens were stitched

© Emily Dickinson

I saw no Way -- The Heavens were stitched --
I felt the Columns close --
The Earth reversed her Hemispheres --
I touched the Universe --

I rose -- because He sank --

© Emily Dickinson

I rose -- because He sank --
I thought it would be opposite --
But when his power dropped --
My Soul grew straight.

I reckon -- when I count it all --

I reckon -- when I count it all --
First -- Poets -- Then the Sun --
Then Summer -- Then the Heaven of God --
And then -- the List is done --

I read my sentence -- steadily

I read my sentence -- steadily --
Reviewed it with my eyes,
To see that I made no mistake
In its extremest clause --

I prayed, at first, a little Girl,

I prayed, at first, a little Girl,
Because they told me to --
But stopped, when qualified to guess
How prayer would feel -- to me --

I play at Riches -- to appease

I play at Riches -- to appease
The Clamoring for Gold --
It kept me from a Thief, I think,
For often, overbold

I pay -- in Satin Cash

I pay -- in Satin Cash --
You did not state -- your price --
A Petal, for a Paragraph
It near as I can guess --

I noticed People disappeared

I noticed People disappeared
When but a little child --
Supposed they visited remote
Or settled Regions wild --
But did because they died
A Fact withheld the little child --