Emily Dickinson: Trust in the Unexpected - By this - was William Ki
Trust in the Unexpected -
By this - was William Kidd
Persuaded of the Buried Gold -
As One had testified -
Through this - the old Philosopher -
His Talismanic Stone
Discerned - still withholden
To effort undivine -
'Twas this - allured Columbus -
When Genoa - withdrew
Before an Apparition
Baptized America -
The Same - afflicted Thomas -
When Deity pronounced
'Twas blesseder - the seeing not -
Provided it believed.
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...