Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life
LXI
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| EACH life converges to some centre | |
| Expressed or still; | |
| Exists in every human nature | |
| A goal, | |
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| Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be, | 5 |
| Too fair | |
| For credibility’s temerity | |
| To dare. | |
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| Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven, | |
| To reach | 10 |
| Were hopeless as the rainbow’s raiment | |
| To touch, | |
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| Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance; | |
| How high | |
| Unto the saints’ slow diligence | 15 |
| The sky! | |
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| Ungained, it may be, by a life’s low venture, | |
| But then, | |
| Eternity enables the endeavoring | |
| Again. | 20 |
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