Wednesday, March 16, 2011

By Itself Alone

Always insights from the dear lady of Amherst...

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound
CXVI

LOVE reckons by itself alone,
“As large as I” relate the Sun
To one who never felt it blaze,
Itself is all the like it has.

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