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His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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Emilia Dickinson
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
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Home is the definition of God.
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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.
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I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.
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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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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.
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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
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The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
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This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
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'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.
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Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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