Emily Dickinson: I cross till I am weary A Mountain - in my mind -
I cross till I am weary
A Mountain - in my mind -
More Mountains - then a Sea -
More Seas - And then
A Desert - find -
And My Horizon blocks
With sudden - blinding - Grains
Of unconjectured quantity -
As Asiatic Rains -
Nor this - defeat my Pace -
It hinder from the West
But as an Enemy's Salute
One hurrying to Rest -
What merit had the Goal -
Except there intervene
Faint Doubt - and far Competitor -
To jeopardize the Gain?
At last - the Grace in sight -
I shout unto my feet -
I offer them the Whole of Heaven
The instant that we meet -
They strive - and yet delay -
They stagger - Do we die -
Or is this Death's Experiment -
Reversed - in Victory?
Emily Dickinson
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Musicians wrestle everywhere -
All day - among the crowded air
I hear the silver strife -
And - waking - long before the morn -
Such transport breaks upon the town
I think it that "New life"...
No Notice gave She, but a Change -
No Message, but a Sigh -
For Whom, the Time did not suffice
That She should specify.
She was not warm, though Summer shone
Nor scrupulous of cold
Though Rime by Rime...
Within my Garden, rides a Bird
Upon a single Wheel -
Whose spokes a dizzy Music make
As 'twere a travelling Mill -
He never stops, but slackens
Above the Ripest Rose -
Partakes without alighting
And p...