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• You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dog, Hills, Canine

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.404, Harvard University Press

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• Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Forever, Different

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.891, Delphi Classics

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• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Independent, Careers, Simplicity

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.169, First Avenue Editions

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• I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

  Emily Dickinson

  Grief, Eye, Grieving

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• My life closed twice before its close

  Emily Dickinson

  Death

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 1 (unknown date)

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• To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loss, Estates, Loses

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.640, Delphi Classics

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• Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Force, Stimulus

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1059, Delphi Classics

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• Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Editing, Editors

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• It sounded as if the streets were running,
  And then the streets stood still.

  Emily Dickinson

  Running, Streets, Stills

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.548, Harvard University Press

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• Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

  Emily Dickinson

  Should, Those We Love

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.368, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Wine, Drunkards

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.784, Harvard University Press

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• A Clock stopped--
  Not the Mantel's--
  Geneva's farthest skill
  Can't put the puppet bowing--
  That just now dangled still

  Emily Dickinson

  Skills, Puppets, Clock

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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• 'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Lying, Daisies

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

  Emily Dickinson

  Experience, Tunes, Noon

  Emily Dickinson, “Like Trains Of Cars On Tracks Of Plush”

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• He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blow, Player, Keys

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Heart, Different

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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• There is a solitude of space.
  A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Space, Sea, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1977, Delphi Classics

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• I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Lonely, Men, Awful

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.512, Harvard University Press

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• There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, World, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.901, Harvard University Press

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• A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

  Emily Dickinson

  War, Bayonets, Contrition

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.503, Harvard University Press

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• Victory comes late--
  And is held low to freezing lips--
  Too rapt with frost
  To take it

  Emily Dickinson

  Victory, Frost, Lips

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.357, Harvard University Press

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• Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Soul, Awful

  c.1864 Complete Poems, no.894 (first published 1945).

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• Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Lovers, Criteria

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.369, Courier Corporation

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• God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Justice, Bird, Crumbs

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.110, First Avenue Editions

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• A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

  Emily Dickinson

  Butterfly, Sky, Majesty

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.494, Harvard University Press

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