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Thither I pilot thee,—
Land, ho! Eternity!
Ashore at last!
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even to leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most of her friendships were based entirely upon correspondence.
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““If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”
#378
I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched —
I felt the Columns close —
The Earth reversed her Hemispheres —
I touched the Universe —

(CONT)

#1712

A Pit-but Heaven over it-
And Heaven beside, and Heaven abroad,
and yet a Pit-
With Heaven over it.

To stir would be to slip-
To look would be to drop-
To dream-to sap the Prop
That holds my chances up.
Ah! Pit! With Heaven over it!

(Final stanza cont. in comments)

#1480
The fascinating chill that music leaves
Is Earth's corroboration
Of Ecstasy's impediment —
'Tis Rapture's germination
In timid and tumultuous soil
A fine — estranging creature —
To something upper wooing us
But not to our Creator —

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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne‘er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
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#Tree #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView

An excerpt from poem 414. I just encountered it for the first time, as I'm making my way through the complete poetry. It's readily available if you Google & I definitely recommend reading it. It's one of the more remarkable poems by her that I wasn't familiar with & I think it deserves a wider audience.

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Ashore at last!
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This was good to read. It was very enjoyable to read the poems of Emily Dickinson. They were very fun to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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#PoetryMatters Day 29: #Loyal

“Myself was formed—a carpenter—
An unpretending time
My Plane—and I, together wrought
Before a Builder came—

To measure our attainments—
Had we the Art of Boards
Sufficiently developed—He‘d hire us
At Halves—

My Tools took Human—Faces—
The Bench, where we had toiled—
Against the Man—persuaded—
We—Temples build—I said—“

Remembering Emily Dickinson on her birthday.

#GratefulHarvest
Here‘s a beautiful #Moon poem from Emily Dickinson. Enjoy.

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#Historic

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne‘er succeed.
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#PoetryMatters Day 9: #Education

Dickinson wrote a lot of poems - there are 1775 in this collection. This collection is comprehensive and well organized. Many of her early poems are very girly things about flowers and bees, but you can see her mature as both a person and a poet as you progress through the collection. Like any artist, there is a lot of so-so stuff here, a lot of pretty good, and a few amazing. Overall, 4⭐️

#brave #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

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#Boat

WHO never wanted,—maddest joy
Remains to him unknown;
The banquet of abstemiousness
Surpasses that of wine.

Within its hope, though yet ungrasped 5
Desire‘s perfect goal,
No nearer, lest reality
Should disenthrall thy soul.

#desire #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Photo: Transcript of Emily Dickinson‘s
“Who Never Wanted Maddest Joy”
Amherst College Digital Archives

#poetrymatters #chance

Finding it hard to read this week - so switching to AppleTV instead - just starting in on Dickinson 🤞🏼

It‘s Emily Dickinson again! 😊

#poetrymatters #gown

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#poetrymattets May 10: Mother

Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson

#poetrymatters March 28: gale

“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson, included in the tagged

#hopeful

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Trust Emily Dickinson to flip the switch, as it were, and describe a #rayoflight as oppressive, "like the heft of cathedral tunes" ?

#MOvember @Cinfhen

#poetrymatters #back

#poetrymatters #walk

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‘A Shade upon the mind there passes‘

A Shade upon the mind there passes
As when on Noon
A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses
Remembering

That some there be too numb to notice
Oh God
Why give if Thou must take away
The Loved?

(Portrayal of Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Nixon).

#poetrymatters #shade

”You cannot put a Fire out”

You cannot put a Fire out —
A Thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a Fan —
Upon the slowest Night —

You cannot fold a Flood —
And put it in a Drawer —
Because the Winds would find it out —
And tell your Cedar Floor —

By Emily Dickinson.

#poetrymatters #fire

Watercolour painting of Emily Dickinson by Fabrizio Cassetta.

#poetrymatters #blessings

#poetrymatters #judge @LazyDays @TheSpineView