Experience is the Angled Road by Emily Dickenson

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Experience is the Angled Road
by Emily Dickenson

Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead

Quite Opposite -- How Complicate
The Discipline of Man --
Compelling Him to Choose Himself
His Preappointed Pain –

This World is Not Conclusion by Emily Dickenson

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This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
But positive, as sound.


It beckons and it baffles;
Philosophies don’t know,
And through a riddle, at the last,
Sagacity must go.


To guess it puzzles scholars;
To gain it, men have shown
Contempt of generations,
And crucifixion known.

I heard a fly buzz when I died by Emily Dickenson

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Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable, and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.