Of all the souls that stand create
I have elected one.
When sense from spirit files away,
And subterfuge is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved sway,--
Behold the atom I Feferred
To all the lists of clay!
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- What I See Not, I Better See
- The Bird Must Sing To Earn The Crumb
- Heavenly Father
- A Word dropped careless on a Page
- There Is A Morn By Men Unseen