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! Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –
In Corners – till a DayThe Owner passed – identified –And carried Me away – And now We roam in Sovreign Woods –And now We hunt the Doe –And every time I speak for HimThe Mountains straight reply – And do I smile, such cordial lightOpon the Valley glow –It is as a Vesuvian faceHad […]
If I should die – Emily Dickinson
If I should die,And you should live,And time should gurgle on,And morn should beam,And noon should burn,As it has usual done;If birds should build as early,And bees as bustling go,—One might depart at optionFrom enterprise below!’T is sweet to know that stocks will standWhen we with daisies lie,That commerce will continue,And trades as briskly fly.It […]
A first encounter
Because I could not speak to her – she lewdly blinked at me – That moment held but just ourselves – And Curiosity. We tiptoed slowly – we had all nightAnd I had put asideMy fear of the conventions too,For her concinnity – We passed the buffet, where waiters clashAll peculiarly dressed – as penguins […]