I Never Hear the Word 'Escape’, di Emily Dickinson

I Never Hear the Word 'Escape’

I never hear the word 'escape’

Without a quicker blood,

A sudden expectation,

A flying attitude.

I never hear of prisons broad

By soldiers battered down,

But I tug childish at my bars,—

Only to fail again!

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886 These tested Our Horizon— Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude.

457 Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—House… Sealed so stately tight— Lids of Steel—on Lids of Marble— Locking Bare feet out—

942 Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Wint… I admonish Thee

The Savior must have been A docile Gentleman— To come so far so cold a Day For little Fellowmen— The Road to Bethlehem

131 Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the Haze—

Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought A further force of life

Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling

871 The Sun and Moon must make their… The Stars express around For in the Zones of Paradise The Lord alone is burned—

The Clover’s simple Fame Remembered of the Cow - Is better than enameled Realms Of notability. Renown perceives itself

Not “Revelation”—'tis—that waits, But our unfurnished eyes—

482 We Cover Thee—Sweet Face— Not that We tire of Thee— But that Thyself fatigue of Us— Remember—as Thou go—

LXVII A DEED knocks first at thought, And then it knocks at will. That is the manufacturing spot, And will at home and well.

396 There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain— ’Tis Pain’s Successor—When the S… Has suffered all it can—

888 When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House— And leave a Day at every Door A Deed, in every place—

880 The Bird must sing to earn the Cr… What merit have the Tune No Breakfast if it guaranty The Rose content may bloom