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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 19m

Tis easier to pity those when dead 'Tis easier to pity those when dead That which pity previous Would have saved — A Tragedy enacted Secures Applause That Tragedy enacting Too seldom does.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar Unless thou know'st the Tune Or every Bird will point at thee Because a Bard too soon —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These Strangers, in a foreign World These Strangers, in a foreign World, Protection asked of me — Befriend them, lest Yourself in Heaven Be found a Refugee —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(1/2) I think the longest Hour of all I think the longest Hour of all Is when the Cars have come — And we are waiting for the Coach — It seems as though the Time Indignant — that the Joy was come — Did block the Gilded Hands — And would not let the Seconds by — But slowest instant — ends —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beauty — be not caused — It Is Beauty — be not caused — It Is — Chase it, and it ceases — Chase it not, and it abides — Overtake the Creases In the Meadow — when the Wind Runs his fingers thro' it — Deity will see to it That You never do it —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Dimple in the Tomb A Dimple in the Tomb Makes that ferocious Room A Home —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll send the feather from my Hat! I'll send the feather from my Hat! Who knows — but at the sight of that My Sovereign will relent? As trinket — worn by faded Child — Confronting eyes long — comforted — Blisters the Adamant!

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like Trains of Cars on Tracks of Plush Like Trains of Cars on Tracks of Plush I hear the level Bee — A Jar across the Flowers goes Their Velvet Masonry — Withstands until the sweet Assault Their Chivalry consumes — While He, victorious tilts away To vanquish other Blooms.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fame of Myself, to justify Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous — An Incense Beyond Necessity — Fame of Myself to lack — Although My Name be else Supreme — This were an Honor honorless — A futile Diadem —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To hang our head — ostensibly To hang our head — ostensibly — And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind — Affords the sly presumption That in so dense a fuzz — You — too — take Cobweb attitudes Upon a plane of Gauze!

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(1/2) Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt? Deny! Did Rose her Bee — For Privilege of Play Or Wile of Butterfly Or Opportunity — Her Lord away? The lady with the Amulet — will face —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a solitude of space There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself — Finite infinity.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(1/2) Our journey had advanced Our journey had advanced — Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road — Eternity — by Term — Our pace took sudden awe — Our feet — reluctant — led — Before — were Cities — but Between — The Forest of the Dead — Retreat — was out of Hope —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Contained in this short Life Contained in this short Life Are magical extents The soul returning soft at night To steal securer thence As Children strictest kept Turn soonest to the sea Whose nameless Fathoms slink away Beside infinity

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(1/3) I am ashamed — I hide I am ashamed — I hide — What right have I — to be a Bride — So late a Dowerless Girl — Nowhere to hide my dazzled Face — No one to teach me that new Grace — Nor introduce — my Soul — Me to adorn — How — tell — Trinket — to make Me beautiful — Fabrics of Cashmere —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(1/2) As Watchers hang upon the East As Watchers hang upon the East, As Beggars revel at a feast By savory Fancy spread — As brooks in deserts babble sweet On ear too far for the delight, Heaven beguiles the tired. As that same watcher, when the East Opens the lid of Amethyst

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(1/3) I cannot dance upon my Toes I cannot dance upon my Toes — No Man instructed me — But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth me, That had I Ballet knowledge — Would put itself abroad In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe — Or lay a Prima, mad, And though I had no Gown of Gauze —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually His Suit a chance His Troth a Term Protracted as the Breeze Continual Ban propoundeth He Continual Divorce.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(1/3) The saddest noise, the sweetest noise The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows, — The birds, they make it in the spring, At night's delicious close. Between the March and April line — That magical frontier Beyond which summer hesitates,

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Was not was all the Statement "Was not" was all the Statement. The Unpretension stuns — Perhaps — the Comprehension — They wore no Lexicons — But lest our Speculation In inanition die Because "God took him" mention — That was Philology —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know of people in the Grave I know of people in the Grave Who would be very glad To know the news I know tonight If they the chance had had. 'Tis this expands the least event And swells the scantest deed — My right to walk upon the Earth If they this moment had.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Summer that we did not prize The Summer that we did not prize, Her treasures were so easy Instructs us by departing now And recognition lazy — Bestirs itself — puts on its Coat, And scans with fatal promptness For Trains that moment out of sight, Unconscious of his smartness.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

(1/2) How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights — When people have put out the Lights And everything that has an Inn Closes the shutter and goes in — How pompous the Wind must feel Noons Stepping to incorporeal Tunes Correcting errors of the sky

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(1/2) One dignity delays for all One dignity delays for all, One mitred afternoon. None can avoid this purple, None evade this crown. Coach it insures, and footmen, Chamber and state and throng ; Bells, also, in the village, As we ride grand along. What dignified attendants,

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Talk with prudence to a Beggar Talk with prudence to a Beggar Of "Potose," and the mines! Reverently, to the Hungry Of your viands, and your wines! Cautious, hint to any Captive You have passed enfranchised feet! Anecdotes of air in Dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet!

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This was in the White of the Year This was in the White of the Year — That — was in the Green — Drifts were as difficult then to think As Daisies now to be seen — Looking back is best that is left Or if it be — before — Retrospection is Prospect's half, Sometimes, almost more.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Apology for Her Apology for Her Be rendered by the Bee — Herself, without a Parliament Apology for Me.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Surprise is like a thrilling — pungent Surprise is like a thrilling — pungent — Upon a tasteless meat Alone — too acrid — but combined An edible Delight.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(1/3) Whose are the little beds, I asked Whose are the little beds, I asked Which in the valleys lie? Some shook their heads, and others smiled — And no one made reply. Perhaps they did not hear, I said, I will inquire again — Whose are the beds — the tiny beds So thick upon the plain?

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(1/2) You cannot make Remembrance grow You cannot make Remembrance grow When it has lost its Root — The tightening the Soil around And setting it upright Deceives perhaps the Universe But not retrieves the Plant — Real Memory, like Cedar Feet Is shod with Adamant —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I noticed People disappeared I noticed People disappeared When but a little child — Supposed they visited remote Or settled Regions wild — But did because they died A Fact withheld the little child —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Had I not seen the Sun Had I not seen the Sun I could have borne the shade But Light a newer Wilderness My Wilderness has made —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lad of Athens, faithful be Lad of Athens, faithful be To Thyself, And Mystery— All the rest is Perjury—

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(1/2) She lay as if at play She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away — Intending to return — But not so soon — Her merry Arms, half dropt — As if for lull of sport — An instant had forgot — The Trick to start — Her dancing Eyes — ajar — As if their Owner were Still sparkling through

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(1/2) In many and reportless places In many and reportless places We feel a Joy — Reportless, also, but sincere as Nature Or Deity — It comes, without a consternation — Dissolves — the same — But leaves a sumptuous Destitution — Without a Name — Profane it by a search — we cannot

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I lived on Dread I lived on Dread — To Those who know The Stimulus there is In Danger — Other impetus Is numb — and Vitalless — As 'twere a Spur — upon the Soul — A Fear will urge it where To go without the Sceptre's aid Were Challenging Despair.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Experiment to me Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No Bobolink — reverse His Singing No Bobolink — reverse His Singing When the only Tree Ever He minded occupying By the Farmer be — Clove to the Root — His Spacious Future — Best Horizon — gone — Whose Music be His Only Anodyne — Brave Bobolink —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Lightning is a yellow Fork The Lightning is a yellow Fork From Tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropt The awful Cutlery Of mansions never quite disclosed And never quite concealed The Apparatus of the Dark To ignorance revealed.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

To offer brave assistance To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone — When One has failed to stop them — Is Human — but Divine To lend an Ample Sinew Unto a Nameless Man — Whose Homely Benediction No other — stopped to earn —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

(1/8) A narrow Fellow in the Grass Version 1: A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him—did you not His notice instant is, The grass divides as with a comb, A spotted shaft is seen, And then it closes at your feet, And opens further on. He likes a boggy acre

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

But little Carmine hath her face But little Carmine hath her face — Of Emerald scant — her Gown — Her Beauty — is the love she doth — Itself — exhibit — Mine —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Her face was in a bed of hair Her face was in a bed of hair, Like flowers in a plot — Her hand was whiter than the sperm That feeds the sacred light. Her tongue more tender than the tune That totters in the leaves — Who hears may be incredulous, Who witnesses, believes.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Never for Society Never for Society He shall seek in vain — Who His own acquaintance Cultivate — Of Men Wiser Men may weary — But the Man within Never knew Satiety — Better entertain Than could Border Ballad — Or Biscayan Hymn — Neither introduction Need You — unto Him —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Doom is the House without the Door Doom is the House without the Door — 'Tis entered from the Sun — And then the Ladder's thrown away, Because Escape — is done — 'Tis varied by the Dream Of what they do outside — Where Squirrels play — and Berries die — And Hemlocks — bow — to God —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Jay his Castanet has struck The Jay his Castanet has struck Put on your muff for Winter The Tippet that ignores his voice Is impudent to nature Of Swarthy Days he is the close His Lotus is a chestnut The Cricket drops a sable line No more from yours at present

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

His Mind like Fabrics of the East His Mind like Fabrics of the East Displayed to the despair Of everyone but here and there An humble Purchaser — For though his price was not of Gold — More arduous there is — That one should comprehend the worth Was all the price there was —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The power to be true to You The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture — Presumptuous of Your Place — Of This — Could Man deprive Me — Himself — the Heaven excel — Whose invitation — Yours reduced Until it showed too small —

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(1/2) A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink — I hunted all the Sand — I caught the Dripping of a Rock And bore it in my Hand — His Mighty Balls — in death were thick — But searching — I could see A Vision on the Retina Of Water — and of me —

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