“Because I could not stop for Death--
He kindly stopped for me--
The Carriage held but just Ourselves--
and Immortality.”

Because I Could Not Stop For Death, Emily Dickinson

“For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ration
To the ecstasy.”

For each ecstatic instant, Emily Dickinson

“It struck me -- every Day --
The Lightning was as new
As if the Cloud that instant slit
And let the Fire through --

It burned Me -- in the Night --
It Blistered to My Dream --
It sickened fresh upon my sight --
With every Morn that came --

I though that Storm -- was brief --
The Maddest -- quickest by --
But Nature lost the Date of This --
And left it in the Sky -- ”

It struck me -- every Day --, Emily Dickinson Recommended by Shay.

“Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
It cannot recollect
When it begun -- or if there were
A time when it was not --

It has no Future -- but itself --
Its Infinite contain
Its Past -- enlightened to perceive
New Periods -- of Pain.”

Pain -- has an Element of Blank --, Emily Dickinson Recommended by Shay.

“The first Day's Night had come --
And grateful that a thing
So terrible -- had been endured --
I told my Soul to sing --

She said her Strings were snapt --
Her Bow -- to Atoms blown --
And so to mend her -- gave me work
Until another Morn --

And then -- a Day as huge
As Yesterdays in pairs,
Unrolled its horror in my face --
Until it blocked my eyes --

My Brain -- begun to laugh --
I mumbled -- like a fool --
And tho' 'tis Years ago -- that Day --
My Brain keeps giggling -- still.

And Something's odd -- within --
That person that I was --
And this One -- do not feel the same --
Could it be Madness -- this?”

The first Day's Night had come, Emily Dickinson

“Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality.”

Unable are the Loved to die, Emily Dickinson