Maimed -- was I -- yet not by Venture --
Stone of stolid Boy --
Nor a Sportsman's Peradventure --
Who mine Enemy?
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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The Suburbs of a SecretA Strategist should keep,
Better than on a Dream intrude
To scrutinize the Sleep.
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With inference appalling
By Childhood fortified
We thought, at least they are no worse
Than they have been described.
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Inebriate of Air am I And Debauchee of Dew Reeling through endless summer days From inns of Molten Blue.
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The gleam of an heroic Act
Such strange illumination
The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
Emily Dickinson
On Moses -- seemed to fasten
With tantalizing Play
As Boy -- should deal with lesser Boy --
To prove ability.
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Proud of my night, since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
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