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Archive for December, 2008
A long, long sleep By Emily Dickinson
Dec 1st
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep That makes no show for dawn By strech of limb or stir of lid, – An independent one.
Was ever idleness like this? Within a hut of stone To bask the centuries away Nor once look up for noon?
I cannot live with you — by Emily Dickinson
Dec 1st
I cannot live with You – It would be Life – And Life is over there – Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to – Putting up Our Life – His Porcelain – Like a Cup – Discarded of the Housewife – Quaint – or Broke – A newer Sevres pleases – Old Ones crack – I could not die – with You – For More >
A clock stopped — by Emily Dickinson
Dec 1st
A clock stopped — not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still.
An awe came on the trinket! The figures hunched with pain, Then quivered out of decimals Into degreeless noon.
It will not stir for doctors, This pendulum More >
A Bird Came Down by Emily Dickinson
Dec 1st
A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass, And then hopped sidewise to the wall To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried More >