Least Bee that brew
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Least Bee that brew—
A Honey's Weight
Content Her smallest fraction help
The Amber Quantity—
poem by Emily Dickinson
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The Gleam of an Heroic Act
The gleam of an heroic Act
Such strange illumination
The Possible’s slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
poem by Emily Dickinson (1687)
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I would distil a cup
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I would distil a cup,
And bear to all my friends,
Drinking to her no more astir,
By beck, or burn, or moor!
poem by Emily Dickinson
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How well I knew Her not
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How well I knew Her not
Whom not to know has been
A Bounty in prospective, now
Next Door to mine the Pain.
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Artists wrestled here!
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Artists wrestled here!
Lo, a tint Cashmere!
Lo, a Rose!
Student of the Year!
For the easel here
Say Repose!
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Could—I do more—for Thee
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Could—I do more—for Thee—
Wert Thou a Bumble Bee—
Since for the Queen, have I—
Nought but Bouquet?
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Triumph—may be of several kinds
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Triumph—may be of several kinds—
There's Triumph in the Room
When that Old Imperator—Death—
By Faith
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Purple—is fashionable twice
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Purple—is fashionable twice—
This season of the year,
And when a soul perceives itself
To be an Emperor.
poem by Emily Dickinson
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By Chivalries as tiny
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By Chivalries as tiny,
A Blossom, or a Book,
The seeds of smiles are planted—
Which blossom in the dark.
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Ideals are the Fairly Oil
983
Ideals are the Fairly Oil
With which we help the Wheel
But when the Vital Axle turns
The Eye rejects the Oil.
poem by Emily Dickinson
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