Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Three: Love
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| I ENVY seas whereon he rides, | |
| I envy spokes of wheels | |
| Of chariots that him convey, | |
| I envy speechless hills | |
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| That gaze upon his journey; | 5 |
| How easy all can see | |
| What is forbidden utterly | |
| As heaven, unto me! | |
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| I envy nests of sparrows | |
| That dot his distant eaves, | 10 |
| The wealthy fly upon his pane, | |
| The happy, happy leaves | |
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| That just abroad his window | |
| Have summer’s leave to be, | |
| The earrings of Pizarro | 15 |
| Could not obtain for me. | |
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| I envy light that wakes him, | |
| And bells that boldly ring | |
| To tell him it is noon abroad,— | |
| Myself his noon could bring, | 20 |
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| Yet interdict my blossom | |
| And abrogate my bee, | |
| Lest noon in everlasting night | |
| Drop Gabriel and me. | |
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