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Poems by Emily Dickinson: Escape

by EmilyDickinsonThe TestCompensationEscape Escape I never hear the word "escape" Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude. I never hear of prisons broad By…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Compensation

by EmilyDickinsonEscapeThe MartyrsCompensation Compensation For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. For each beloved hour Sharp…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Martyrs

by EmilyDickinsonCompensationA PrayerThe Martyrs The Martyrs Through the straight pass of suffering The martyrs even trod, Their feet upon temptation, Their faces upon God. A stately,…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: A Prayer

by EmilyDickinsonThe MartyrsXIVA Prayer A Prayer I meant to have but modest needs, Such as content, and heaven; Within my income these could lie, And life and I keep even. But since the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Show

by EmilyDickinsonThe Railway TrainXIXThe Show The Show The show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be. Fair play — Both went to see.

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Return

by EmilyDickinsonXXIXXIIIThe Return The Return Though I get home how late, how late! So I get home, 't will compensate. Better will be the ecstasy That they have done expecting me, When,…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Shipwreck

by EmilyDickinsonToo MuchXXVIShipwreck Shipwreck It tossed and tossed, — A little brig I knew, — O'ertook by blast, It spun and spun, And groped delirious, for morn. It slipped and…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Enough

by EmilyDickinsonXXVIXXVIIIEnough Enough God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starve, — My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the feat…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Duel

by EmilyDickinsonXXXIIXXXIVThe Duel The Duel I took my power in my hand. And went against the world; 'T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. I aimed my pebble, but…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Goal

by EmilyDickinsonXXXIVSightThe Goal The Goal Each life converges to some centre Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal, Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be, Too fair…