• I never lost as much but twice,

  • I never lost as much but twice, (unsourced)

    I never lost as much but twice,

    And that was in the sod.

    Twice have I stood a beggar

    Before the door of God!


    Angels — twice descending

    Reimbursed my store —

    Burglar! Banker — Father!

    I am poor once more!

  • My life closed twice before its close —

    My life closed twice before its close—

    It yet remains to see

    If Immortality unveil

    A third event to me


    So huge, so hopeless to conceive

    As these that twice befell.

    Parting is all we know of heaven,

    And all we need of hell.

  • Poems (Dickinson)/I never lost as much but twice,

    I never lost as much but twice,

    And that was in the sod ;

    Twice have I stood a beggar

    Before the door of God !


    Angels, twice descending,

    Reimbursed my store.

    Burglar, banker, father,

    I am poor once more !...

  • Purple — is fashionable twice —

    Purple — is fashionable twice —

    This season of the year,

    And when a soul perceives itself

    To be an Emperor.

  • Twice had Summer her fair Verdure

    Twice had Summer her fair Verdure

    Proffered to the Plain —

    Twice a Winter's silver Fracture

    On the Rivers been —


    Two full Autumns for the Squirrel

    Bounteous prepared —

    Nature, Had'st thou not a Berry

    For thy wandering Bird?

  • Two — were immortal twice —

    Two — were immortal twice —

    The privilege of few —

    Eternity — obtained — in Time —

    Reversed Divinity —


    That our ignoble Eyes

    The quality conceive

    Of Paradise superlative —

    Through their Comparative.