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The Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated) is a comprehensive compilation of the poet's extensive body of work. It includes her famous poems, personal correspondence, and other prose. The illustrated edition adds visual elements to enhance the reading experience, showcasing Dickinson's unique style and the historical context of her time.
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“Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.”
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“Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.”
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“A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.
It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.
Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay -
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.”
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“A light exists in Spring
Not present in the year
at any other period
When March is scarcely here.”
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“Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?”
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“Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out”
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“Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.”
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“Spring is the Period
Express from God.”
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“God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.”
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“I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing -
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears -
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown -
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And will return.”
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“His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.”
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“Banish Air from Air
Divide Light if you dare”
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“Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.”
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“Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door.”
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“Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.”
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“If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve”
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“You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.”
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“I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.”
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“There is a solitude of space.
A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.”
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“The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan -
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.”
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“A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find”
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“The past is not a package one can lay away.”
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“It is easy to work when the soul is at play.”
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“Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.”
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“No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.”
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“Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.”
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“You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.”
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“Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.”
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“By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.”
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“The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.”
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“His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.”
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“The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.”
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“To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.”
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“The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.”
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“Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.”
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“Beauty crowds me till I die.”
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“Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home”
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“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”
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“Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.”
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“IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.”
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“When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.”
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“At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.”
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“The hearts that never lean must fall.”
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“A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene--
This whole experiment in green,
As if it were his own!”
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“Action is redemption.”
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“Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.”
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“I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.”
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“Truth - is as old as God-.”
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“If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now”
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“Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night”
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