mardi 15 juin 2010

I have no life but this

I have no life but this,
To lead it here;
Nor any death, but lest
Dispelled from there;

Nor tie to earths to come
Nor action new,
Except through this extent,
The realm of you.
....

Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door;
Or has it feathers like a bird,
Or billows like a shore ?

Emily DICKINSON, Selected Poems and letters (edited by Robert N. Linscott)

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