We thirst at first—’tis Nature’s Act—, di Emily Dickinson

We thirst at first—’tis Nature’s Act—

726

We thirst at first—’tis Nature’s Act—

And later—when we die—

A little Water supplicate—

Of fingers going by—

It intimates the finer want—

Whose adequate supply

Is that Great Water in the West—

Termed Immortality—

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928 The Heart has narrow Banks It measures like the Sea In mighty—unremitting Bass And Blue Monotony

61 Papa above! Regard a Mouse O’erpowered by the Cat! Reserve within thy kingdom

424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—

549 That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived—Enough—

I am afraid to own a Body - I am afraid to own a Soul - Profound– precarious Property – Possession, not optional - Double Estate - entailed at plea…

A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men,— Of earl and midge The privilege.

137 Flowers—Well—if anybody Can the ecstasy define— Half a transport—half a trouble— With which flowers humble men:

762 The Whole of it came not at once— ’Twas Murder by degrees— A Thrust—and then for Life a chan… The Bliss to cauterize—

881 I’ve none to tell me to but Thee So when Thou failest, nobody. It was a little tie— It just held Two, nor those it he…

607 Of nearness to her sundered Thing… The Soul has special times— When Dimness—looks the Oddity— Distinctness—easy—se ems—

XLIII I LIKE to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step

476 I meant to have but modest needs— Such as Content—and Heaven— Within my income—these could lie And Life and I—keep even—

443 I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl— Life’s little duties do—precisely— As the very least Were infinite—to me—

887 We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer— Till it an Antique fashion shows— Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

March is the Month of Expectation… The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness -