Anthologie poétique

EMILIY DICKINSON

Quatrains et autres poèmes brefs

(1858-1864)

3
We lose - because we win -
Gamblers - recollecting which -
Toss their dice again!

10
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life!

17
The thought beneath so slight a film -
Is more distinctly seen -
As laces just reveal the surge -
Or Mists - the Appenine -

19
It's such a little thing to weep -
So short a thing to sigh -
And yet - by Trades - the size of these
We men and women die!

20
Morning - is the place for Dew -
Corn - is made at Noon -
After dinner light - for flowers -
Dukes - for setting sun!

(1864-1865)

1
The Definition of Beauty is
That Definition is none -
Of Heaven, easing Analysis,
Since Haeven and He and One.

(1866-1876)

1
Count not that far that can be had
Though sunst lie between
Nor that adjacent that beside
Is further than the sun.

23
Too happy Time dissolves himself
And leaves no remnant by -
'This Anguish not a Feather hath
Or too much weigh to fly