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Facts by our side are never sudden

© Emily Dickinson

Facts by our side are never sudden
Until they look around
And then they scare us like a spectre
Protruding from the Ground --

Extol thee -- could I? Then I will

© Emily Dickinson

Extol thee -- could I? Then I will
By saying nothing new --
But just the truest truth
That thou art heavenly.

Experiment to me

© Emily Dickinson

Experiment to me
Is every one I meet
If it contain a Kernel?
The Figure of a Nut

Experiment escorts us last --

© Emily Dickinson

Experiment escorts us last --
His pungent company
Will not allow an Axiom
An Opportunity

Experience is the Angled Road

© Emily Dickinson

Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead

Expectation -- is Contentment --

© Emily Dickinson

Expectation -- is Contentment --
Gain -- Satiety --
But Satiety -- Conviction
Of Necessity

Expanse cannot be lost --

© Emily Dickinson

Expanse cannot be lost --
Not Joy, but a Decree
Is Deity --
His Scene, Infinity --

Exhilaration -- is within

© Emily Dickinson

Exhilaration -- is within --
There can no Outer Wine
So royally intoxicate
As that diviner Brand

Except the smaller size

© Emily Dickinson

Except the smaller size
No lives are round --
These -- hurry to a sphere
And show and end --

Except the Heaven had come so near

© Emily Dickinson

Except the Heaven had come so near --
So seemed to choose My Door --
The Distance would not haunt me so --
I had not hoped -- before --

Estranged from Beauty -- none can be --

© Emily Dickinson

Estranged from Beauty -- none can be --
For Beauty is Infinity --
And power to be finite ceased
Before Identity was leased.

Essential Oils -- are wrung --

© Emily Dickinson

Essential Oils -- are wrung --
The Attar from the Rose
Be not expressed by Suns -- alone --
It is the gift of Screws --

Escaping backward to perceive

© Emily Dickinson

Escaping backward to perceive
The Sea upon our place --
Escaping forward, to confront
His glittering Embrace --

Escape is such a thankful Word

© Emily Dickinson

Escape is such a thankful Word
I often in the Night
Consider it unto myself
No spectacle in sight

Endow the Living -- with the Tears --

Endow the Living -- with the Tears --
You squander on the Dead,
And They were Men and Women -- now,
Around Your Fireside --

Ended, ere it begun --

Ended, ere it begun --
The Title was scarcely told
When the Preface perished from Consciousness
The Story, unrevealed --

Endanger it, and the Demand

Endanger it, and the Demand
Of tickets for a sigh
Amazes the Humility
Of Credibility --

Empty my Heart, of Thee --

Empty my Heart, of Thee --
Its single Artery --
Begin, and leave Thee out --
Simply Extinction's Date --

Embarrassment of one another

Embarrassment of one another
And God
Is Revelation's limit,
Aloud

Elizabeth told Essex

Elizabeth told Essex
That she could not forgive
The clemency of Deity
However -- might survive --