Power poems

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Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds

© Emily Dickinson

Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds
To drink -- enables Mine
Through Desert or the Wilderness
As bore it Sealed Wine --

Removed from Accident of Loss

© Emily Dickinson

Removed from Accident of Loss
By Accident of Gain
Befalling not my simple Days --
Myself had just to earn --

Power is a familiar growth --

© Emily Dickinson

Power is a familiar growth --
Not foreign -- not to be --
Beside us like a bland Abyss
In every company --

One thing of it we borrow

© Emily Dickinson

One thing of it we borrow
And promise to return --
The Booty and the Sorrow
Its Sweetness to have known --

More Life -- went out -- when He went

© Emily Dickinson

More Life -- went out -- when He went
Than Ordinary Breath --
Lit with a finer Phosphor --
Requiring in the Quench --

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 thought that nature was enough

© Emily Dickinson

I thought that nature was enough
Till Human nature came
But that the other did absorb
As Parallax a Flame --

I think I was enchanted

© Emily Dickinson

I think I was enchanted
When first a sombre Girl --
I read that Foreign Lady --
The Dark -- felt beautiful --

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 can wade Grief

© Emily Dickinson

I can wade Grief --
Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy

Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night

© Emily Dickinson

Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night
Had scarcely deigned to lie --
When, stirring, for Belief's delight,
My Bride had slipped away --

Had I presumed to hope --

© Emily Dickinson

Had I presumed to hope --
The loss had been to Me
A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake --
As Giants -- gone away --

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.

A Word made Flesh is seldom

© Emily Dickinson

A Word made Flesh is seldom
And tremblingly partook
Nor then perhaps reported
But have I not mistook

A Planted Life -- diversified

A Planted Life -- diversified
With Gold and Silver Pain
To prove the presence of the Ore
In Particles -- 'tis when

To make Routine a Stimulus

To make Routine a Stimulus
Remember it can cease --
Capacity to Terminate
Is a Specific Grace --

To be alive -- is Power --

To be alive -- is Power --
Existence -- in itself --
Without a further function --
Omnipotence -- Enough --

My Cocoon tightens -- Colors tease --

My Cocoon tightens -- Colors tease --
I'm feeling for the Air --
A dim capacity for Wings
Demeans the Dress I wear --

Let me not mar that perfect Dream

Let me not mar that perfect Dream
By an Auroral stain
But so adjust my daily Night
That it will come again.

In Winter in my Room

The very string with which
I tied him -- too
When he was mean and new
That string was there --