A daily poem from the complete works of Emily Dickinson.
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Smiling back from Coronation
May be Luxury –
On the Heads that started with us –
Being’s Peasantry –
Recognizing in Procession
Ones We former knew –
When Ourselves were also dusty –
Centuries ago –
Had the Triumph no Conviction
Of how many be –
Stimulated — by the Contrast –
Unto Misery –
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To lose one’s faith — surpass
The loss of an Estate –
Because Estates can be
Replenished — faith cannot –
Inherited with Life –
Belief — but once — can be –
Annihilate a single clause –
And Being’s — Beggary –
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I felt my life with both my hands
To see if it was there –
I held my spirit to the Glass,
To prove it possibler –
I turned my Being round and round
And paused at every pound
To ask the Owner’s name –
For doubt, that I should know the Sound –
I judged my features — jarred my hair –
I pushed my dimples by, and waited –
If they — twinkled back –
Conviction might, of me –
I told myself, “Take Courage, Friend –
That — was a former time –
But we might learn to like the Heaven,
As well as our Old Home!”
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My Reward for Being, was This.
My premium — My Bliss –
An Admiralty, less –
A Sceptre — penniless –
And Realms — just Dross –
When Thrones accost my Hands –
With “Me, Miss, Me” –
I’ll unroll Thee –
Dominions dowerless — beside this Grace –
Election — Vote –
The Ballots of Eternity, will show just that.
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Forever at His side to walk –
The smaller of the two!
Brain of His Brain –
Blood of His Blood –
Two lives — One Being — now –
Forever of His fate to taste –
If grief — the largest part –
If joy — to put my piece away
For that beloved Heart –
All life — to know each other –
Whom we can never learn –
And bye and bye — a Change –
Called Heaven –
Rapt Neighborhoods of Men –
Just finding out — what puzzled us –
Without the lexicon!
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