The Written Word

Emily Dickinson

A Light Exists in Spring

 

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here

A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay --

A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Barry

E.E. Cummings

I Carry Your Hearth With Me

I carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it (anywhere

I go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
 by only me is your doing,my darling)
 

                                                      i fear
 No fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) i want
 no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
 and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
 and whatever a sun will always sing is you
 

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
 (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
 and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
 higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
 and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
 

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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