Emily Dickinson: Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity - The s
Sleep is supposed to be
By souls of sanity -
The shutting of the eye.
Sleep is the station grand
Down wh'on either hand -
The Hosts of Witness stand!
Morn is supposed to be
By people of degree -
The breaking of the Day!
Morning has not occurred!
That shall Aurora be
East of Eternity!
One with the banner gay,
One in the red array -
That is the break of Day!
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...