Emily Dickinson Light Poems

A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here
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A toad can die of light!
Death is the common right
Of toads and men,--
Of earl and midge
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There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes--
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Under the Light, yet under,
Under the Grass and the Dirt,
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It's like the light, --
A fashionless delight
It's like the bee, --
A dateless melody.
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Light is sufficient to itself—
If Others want to see
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The Fingers of the Light
Tapped soft upon the Town
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The Poets light but Lamps—
Themselves—go out—
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Image of Light, Adieu -
Thanks for the interview -
So long - so short -
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As from the earth the light Balloon
Asks nothing but release -
Ascension that for which it was,
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