tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37235817.post8602879857680040947..comments2023-05-02T09:10:15.487-05:00Comments on Feathers and Faith: Barbi Clickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15850017543275895154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37235817.post-73709993529892364952007-07-31T16:36:00.000-05:002007-07-31T16:36:00.000-05:00A few lines from the poet laureate of holy discomf...A few lines from the poet laureate of holy discomfort, Emily Dickinson:<BR/><BR/>Ah, Necromancy Sweet!<BR/>Ah, Wizard erudite!<BR/>Teach me the skill,<BR/><BR/>That I instill the pain<BR/>Surgeons assuage in vain,<BR/>Nor Herb of all the plain<BR/>Can heal!<BR/><BR/>(177)<BR/><BR/>I hide myself within my flower,<BR/>That fading from your Vase,<BR/>You, unsuspecting, feel for me--<BR/>Almost a loneliness.<BR/><BR/>(903)<BR/><BR/>A Word dropped careless on a Page<BR/>May stimulate an eye<BR/>When folded in perpetual seam<BR/>The Wrinkled Maker lie<BR/><BR/>Infection in the sentence breeds<BR/>We may inhale Despair<BR/>At distances of Centuries<BR/>From the Malaria--<BR/><BR/>(1261)I dwell in Possibility--<BR/>A fairer House than Prose--<BR/>More numerous of Windows--<BR/>Superior--for Doors--<BR/><BR/>Of Chambers as the Cedars--<BR/>Impregnable of Eye--<BR/>And for an Everlasting Roof<BR/>The Gambrels of the Sky--<BR/><BR/>Of Visitors--the fairest--<BR/>For Occupation--This--<BR/>The spreading wide my narrow Hands<BR/>To gather Paradise--<BR/><BR/>(657)Curious Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00826261592231567924noreply@blogger.com