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The grave my little cottage is,

The grave my little cottage is,
Where "Keeping house" for thee
I make my parlor orderly …

Emily Dickinson
The Guest is gold and crimson —

The Guest is gold and crimson —
An Opal guest and gray —
Of Ermine is his doublet — …
The hallowing of Pain

The hallowing of Pain
Like hallowing of Heaven,
Obtains at a corporeal cost — …
The harm of Years is on him —

The harm of Years is on him —
The infamy of Time —
Depose him like a Fashion …
The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
With confidential moan —
Not mended by Mortality …

Emily Dickinson
The Heart asks Pleasure — first —

The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain ;
And then, those little anodynes …

Emily Dickinson
The Heart has many Doors —

The Heart has many Doors —
I can but knock —
For any sweet "Come in" …
The Heart has narrow Banks

The Heart has narrow Banks
It measures like the Sea
In mighty — unremitting Bass …
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind —

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind —
The Mind is a single State —
The Heart and the Mind together make …

Emily Dickinson
The Hemlock

To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play, …

Emily Dickinson
The Hills erect their Purple Heads

The Hills erect their Purple Heads
The Rivers lean to see
Yet Man has not of all the Throng …

Emily Dickinson
The incidents of love

The incidents of love
Are more than its Events —
Investment's best Expositor …

Emily Dickinson
The inundation of the Spring

The inundation of the Spring
Enlarges every soul —
It sweeps the tenement away …

Emily Dickinson
The Jay his Castanet has struck

The Jay his Castanet has struck
Put on your muff for Winter
The Tippet that ignores his voice …
The joy that has no stem no core,

The joy that has no stem no core,
Nor seed that we can sow,
Is edible to longing. …
The Judge is like the Owl —

The Judge is like the Owl —
I've heard my Father tell —
And Owls do build in Oaks — …
The Juggler's Hat her Country is —

The Juggler's Hat her Country is —
The Mountain Gorse — the Bee's!

Emily Dickinson
The Lady feeds Her little Bird

The Lady feeds Her little Bird
At rarer intervals —
The little Bird would not dissent …
The largest Fire ever known

The largest Fire ever known
Occurs each Afternoon —
Discovered is without surprise …

Emily Dickinson
The last Night that She lived

She mentioned, and forgot;
Then lightly as a reed
Bent to the water, shivered scarce, …

Emily Dickinson