A daily poem from the complete works of Emily Dickinson.
You are currently browsing articles tagged hand.
Take your Heaven further on –
This — to Heaven divine Has gone –
Had You earlier blundered in
Possibly, e’en You had seen
An Eternity — put on –
Now — to ring a Door beyond
Is the utmost of Your Hand –
To the Skies — apologize –
Nearer to Your Courtesies
Than this Sufferer polite –
Dressed to meet You –
See — in White!
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: apologize, beyond, blundered, courtesies, divine, door, dressed, earlier, eternity, further, gone, hand, heaven, meet, nearer, polite, possibly, ring, skies, sufferer, take, utmost, white, you
A precious — mouldering pleasure — ’tis –
To meet an Antique Book –
In just the Dress his Century wore –
A privilege — I think –
His venerable Hand to take –
And warming in our own –
A passage back — or two — to make –
To Times when he — was young –
His quaint opinions — to inspect –
His thought to ascertain
On Themes concern our mutual mind –
The Literature of Man –
What interested Scholars — most –
What Competitions ran –
When Plato — was a Certainty –
And Sophocles — a Man –
When Sappho — was a living Girl –
And Beatrice wore
The Gown that Dante — deified –
Facts Centuries before
He traverses — familiar –
As One should come to Town –
And tell you all your Dreams — were true –
He lived — where Dreams were born –
His presence is Enchantment –
You beg him not to go –
Old Volume shake their Vellum Heads
And tantalize — just so –
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: antique, ascertain, back, beatrice, before, beg, book, born, centuries, century, certainty, competitions, concern, dante, deified, dreams, dress, enchantment, facts, familiar, girl, gown, hand, heads, inspect, intersted, literature, lived, living, make, man, meet, mind, most, mouldering, mutual, old, opinions, passage, plato, pleasure, precious, presence, privilege, quaint, ran, sappho, scholars, sophocles, take, tantalize, tell, themes, think, thought, times, town, traverses, true, two, vellum, venerable, volume, warming, wore, young
Over and over, like a Tune –
The Recollection plays –
Drums off the Phantom Battlements
Cornets of Paradise –
Snatches, from Baptized Generations –
Cadences too grand
But for the Justified Processions
At the Lord’s Right hand.
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: baptized, battlements, cadences, coments, generations, grand, hand, justified, lord, over, paradise, phantom, plays, processions, recollection, right, snatches, tune
Although I put away his life –
An Ornament too grand
For Forehead low as mine, to wear,
This might have been the Hand
That sowed the flower, he preferred –
Or smoothed a homely pain,
Or pushed the pebble from his path –
Or played his chosen tune –
On Lute the least — the latest –
But just his Ear could know
That whatsoe’er delighted it,
I never would let go –
The foot to bear his errand –
A little Boot I know –
Would leap abroad like Antelope –
With just the grant to do –
His weariest Commandment –
A sweeter to obey,
Than “Hide and Seek” –
Or skip to Flutes –
Or all Day, chase the Bee –
Your Servant, Sir, will weary –
The Surgeon, will not come –
The World, will have its own — to do –
The Dust, will vex your Fame –
The Cold will force your tightest door
Some February Day,
But say my apron bring the sticks
To make your Cottage gay –
That I may take that promise
To Paradise, with me –
To teach the Angels, avarice,
You, Sir, taught first — to me.
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: abroad, although, angels, antelope, apron, avarice, away, bear, bee, boot, bring, chase, chosen, cold, commandment, cottage, day, delighted, door, dust, ear, errand, fame, february, first, flower, flutes, foot, force, forehead, gay, grand, grant, hand, hide, homely, know, latest, lead, least, Life, little, low, lute, me, might, mine, never, obey, ornament, own, pain, paradise, path, pebble, played, preferred, promise, pushed, seek, servant, sir, skip, smoothed, sowed, sticks, surgeon, sweeter, taught, teach, tightest, tune, vex, wear, weariest, weary, world
They leave us with the Infinite.
But He — is not a man –
His fingers are the size of fists –
His fists, the size of men –
And whom he foundeth, with his Arm
As Himmaleh, shall stand –
Gibraltar’s Everlasting Shoe
Poised lightly on his Hand,
So trust him, Comrade –
You for you, and I, for you and me
Eternity is ample,
And quick enough, if true.
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: ample, arm, comrade, eternity, everlasting, fingers, fists, foundeth, gibraltar, hand, himmaleh, infinite, leave, lightly, man, men, poised, quick, shoe, size, stand, true, trust
As if I asked a common Alms,
And in my wondering hand
A Stranger pressed a Kingdom,
And I, bewildered, stand –
As if I asked the Orient
Had it for me a Morn –
And it should lift its purple Dikes,
And shatter me with Dawn!
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: alms, asked, bewildered, common, dawn, dikes, hand, kingdom, lift, morn, orient, pressed, purple, shatter, stand, stranger, wondering
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad,
There’s not a Charge to me
Like that old measure in the Boughs –
That phraseless Melody –
The Wind does — working like a Hand,
Whose fingers Comb the Sky –
Then quiver down — with tufts of Tune –
Permitted Gods, and me –
Inheritance, it is, to us –
Beyond the Art to Earn –
Beyond the trait to take away
By Robber, since the Gain
Is gotten not of fingers –
And inner than the Bone –
Hid golden, for the whole of Days,
And even in the Urn,
I cannot vouch the merry Dust
Do not arise and play
In some odd fashion of its own,
Some quainter Holiday,
When Winds go round and round in Bands –
And thrum upon the door,
And Birds take places, overhead,
To bear them Orchestra.
I crave Him grace of Summer Boughs,
If such an Outcast be –
Who never heard that fleshless Chant –
Rise — solemn — on the Tree,
As if some Caravan of Sound
Off Deserts, in the Sky,
Had parted Rank,
Then knit, and swept –
In Seamless Company –
Do you have a Nook? Get the Daily Dickinson Nook Screensaver collection!
Tags: abroad, arise, art, bands, bear, beyond, birds, bone, boughs, caravan, chant, charge, comb, company, crave, days, deserts, despatched, door, dust, earn, fashion, fingers, fleshless, gain, gods, golden, grace, hand, holdiay, inheritance, inner, knit, measure, meolody, merry, odd, old, orchestra, outcast, overhead, parted, permitted, phraseless, places, play, quainter, quiver, rank, rise, robber, round, seamless, sky, solumn, sound, sounds, summer, swept, thrum, trait, tree, tufts, tune, urn, vouch, whole, wind, winds, working
I send Two Sunsets –
Day and I — in competition ran –
I finished Two — and several Stars –
While He — was making One –
His own was ampler — but as I
Was saying to a friend –
Mine — is the more convenient
To Carry in the Hand –
Tags: ampler, carry, competition, convenient, day, finished, frined, hand, making, mine, more, one, ran, saying, send, stars, susnset, two
