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Tag: emily dickinson

  • Reach

    Reach

    A poem about reach

  • My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun 

    My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun 

    by Emily Dickinson My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –In Corners – till a DayThe Owner passed – identified –And carried Me away – And now We roam in Sovreign Woods –And now We hunt the Doe –And every time I speak for HimThe Mountains straight reply – And do I smile, such…

  • If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

    by Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.

  • Hecate, I implore you:

    Hecate, I implore you: Open me a line—I simply must tell EmilyI find her verse divine. Not only is it godly, Em,It’s worldly in a wayThat none other I have ever readHas had the ability to convey. It’s like you gathered Amherst up,And tucked her in a vial,For me to discover, two centuries later,With neither tribulation…

  • XI. (Much madness is divinest sense)

    Much madness is divinest senseTo a discerning eye;Much sense the starkest madness.‘T is the majorityIn this, as all, prevails.Assent, and you are sane;Demur, — you’re straightway dangerous,And handled with a chain. Dickinson, Emily. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One (pp. 5-6).

  • Thank you Emily Dickinson

    Thank you Emily Dickinson

    I traveled all across the worldFound my God inside me.A wonder that it took this long.It’s not like he was hiding.But we’re not meant to recallThat we are all a partOf all there is and all that’s been.Just keep an open heart.Your heart will guide you to the truthAs sure as sure can be.Emily helped…