Poems begining by F
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Forever honored by the Tree
© Emily Dickinson
Forever honored by the Tree
Whose Apple Winterworn
Enticed to Breakfast from the Sky
Two Gabriels Yestermorn.
Forever -- it composed of Nows --
© Emily Dickinson
Forever -- it composed of Nows --
'Tis not a different time --
Except for Infiniteness --
And Latitude of Home --
Forbidden Fruit a flavor has
© Emily Dickinson
Forbidden Fruit a flavor has
That lawful Orchards mocks --
How luscious lies within the Pod
The Pea that Duty locks --
For this -- accepted Breath
© Emily Dickinson
For this -- accepted Breath --
Through it -- compete with Death --
The fellow cannot touch this Crown --
By it -- my title take --
Ah, what a royal sake
To my necessity -- stooped down!
For largest Woman's Hearth I knew
© Emily Dickinson
For largest Woman's Hearth I knew --
'Tis little I can do --
And yet the largest Woman's Heart
Could hold an Arrow -- too --
And so, instructed by my own,
I tenderer, turn Me to.
For every Bird a Nest
© Emily Dickinson
For every Bird a Nest --
Wherefore in timid quest
Some little Wren goes seeking round --
For Death -- or rather
© Emily Dickinson
For Death -- or rather
For the Things 'twould buy --
This -- put away
Life's Opportunity --
Fitter to see Him, I may be
© Emily Dickinson
Fitter to see Him, I may be
For the long Hindrance -- Grace -- to Me --
With Summers, and with Winters, grow,
Some passing Year -- A trait bestow
Finite -- to fail, but infinite to Venture --
© Emily Dickinson
Finite -- to fail, but infinite to Venture --
For the one ship that struts the shore
Many's the gallant -- overwhelmed Creature
Nodding in Navies nevermore --
Finding is the first Act
© Emily Dickinson
Finding is the first Act
The second, loss,
Third, Expedition for
The "Golden Fleece"
Fate slew Him, but He did not drop --
© Emily Dickinson
Fate slew Him, but He did not drop --
She felled -- He did not fall --
Impaled Him on Her fiercest stakes --
He neutralized them all --
Far from Love the Heavenly Father
© Emily Dickinson
Far from Love the Heavenly Father
Leads the Chosen Child,
Oftener through Realm of Briar
Than the Meadow mild.
Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die
© Emily Dickinson
Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die
And are too seldom born --
Fame of Myself, to justify,
© Emily Dickinson
Fame of Myself, to justify,
All other Plaudit be
Superfluous -- An Incense
Beyond Necessity --
Fame is the tine that Scholars leave
© Emily Dickinson
Fame is the tine that Scholars leave
Upon their Setting Names --
The Iris not of Occident
That disappears as comes --
Falsehood of Thee could I suppose
© Emily Dickinson
Falsehood of Thee could I suppose
'Twould undermine the Sill
To which my Faith pinned Block by Block
Her Cedar Citadel.
Fairer through Fading -- as the Day
© Emily Dickinson
Fairer through Fading -- as the Day
Into the Darkness dips away --
Half Her Complexion of the Sun --
Hindering -- Haunting -- Perishing --
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 --
From Blank to Blank --
© Emily Dickinson
From Blank to Blank --
A Threadless Way
I pushed Mechanic feet --
To stop -- or perish -- or advance --
Alike indifferent --
For each ecstatic instant
© Emily Dickinson
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ration
To the ecstasy.
