"Love's stricken "why" Is all that love can speak — Built o… - Emily Dickinson

"Love's stricken "why"
Is all that love can speak — Built of but just a syllable,
The hugest hearts that break."

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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If your Nerve, deny you — Go above your Nerve — He can lean against the Grave,
If he fear to swerve — That’s a steady posture — Never any bend
Held of those Brass arms — Best Giant made — If your Soul seesaw — Lift the Flesh door — The Poltroon wants Oxygen — Nothing more –

But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches on the soul,
And sings the tune without words,
And never stops at all.

"Love's stricken "why" Is all that love can speak — Built of but just a syllable, The hugest hearts that break." - Emily Dickinson

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