Emily Dickinson: In rags mysterious as these The shining Courtiers
In rags mysterious as these
The shining Courtiers go,
Vailing the purple, and the plumes -
Vailing the ermine so.
Smiling, as they request an alms
At some imposing door -
Smiling when we walk barefoot
Upon their golden floo.
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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...