Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson (10 December, 1830 – 15 May, 1886)!
XXXV. EMANCIPATION.
No rack can torture me,
My soul's at liberty.
Behind this mortal bone
There knits a bolder one
You cannot prick with saw,
Nor rend with scymitar.
Two bodies therefore be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
The eagle of his nest
No easier divest
And gain the sky,
Than mayest thou,
Except thyself may be
Thine enemy;
Captivity is consciousness,
So 's liberty.
- Emily Dickinson (1890)
XXXV. EMANCIPATION.
No rack can torture me,
My soul's at liberty.
Behind this mortal bone
There knits a bolder one
You cannot prick with saw,
Nor rend with scymitar.
Two bodies therefore be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
The eagle of his nest
No easier divest
And gain the sky,
Than mayest thou,
Except thyself may be
Thine enemy;
Captivity is consciousness,
So 's liberty.
- Emily Dickinson (1890)
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And I my Robert Frost. . . ."
("The Dangling Conversation," Simon and Garfunkel)
I think my favorite of hers is "The soul selects her own society."
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