Time poems
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You constituted Time --
© Emily Dickinson
You constituted Time --
I deemed Eternity
A Revelation of Yourself --
'Twas therefore Deity
Without a smile -- Without a Throe
© Emily Dickinson
Without a smile -- Without a Throe
A Summer's soft Assemblies go
To their entrancing end
Unknown -- for all the times we met --
Estranged, however intimate --
What a dissembling Friend --
Who were "the Father and the Son"
© Emily Dickinson
Who were "the Father and the Son"
We pondered when a child,
And what had they to do with us
And when portentous told
When Night is almost done
© Emily Dickinson
When Night is almost done --
And Sunrise grows so near
That we can touch the Spaces --
It's time to smooth the Hair --
What mystery pervades a well!
© Emily Dickinson
What mystery pervades a well!
That water lives so far --
A neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar
Were natural mortal lady
© Emily Dickinson
Were natural mortal lady
Who had so little time
To pack her trunk and order
The great exchange of clime --
We talked with each other about each other
© Emily Dickinson
We talked with each other about each other
Though neither of us spoke --
We were listening to the seconds' Races
And the Hoofs of the Clock --
We send the Wave to find the Wave --
© Emily Dickinson
We send the Wave to find the Wave --
An Errand so divine,
The Messenger enamored too,
Forgetting to return,
We do not know the time we lose --
© Emily Dickinson
We do not know the time we lose --
The awful moment is
And takes its fundamental place
Among the certainties --
Unto my Books -- so good to turn --
© Emily Dickinson
Unto my Books -- so good to turn --
Far ends of tired Days --
It half endears the Abstinence --
And Pain -- is missed -- in Praise --
Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me
© Emily Dickinson
Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me --
How Kinsmen fell --
Brothers and Sister -- who preferred the Glory --
And their young will
Two -- were immortal twice --
© Emily Dickinson
Two -- were immortal twice --
The privilege of few --
Eternity -- obtained -- in Time --
Reversed Divinity --
To be forgot by thee
© Emily Dickinson
To be forgot by thee
Surpasses Memory
Of other minds
The Heart cannot forget
Time's wily Chargers will not wait
© Emily Dickinson
Time's wily Chargers will not wait
At any Gate but Woe's --
But there -- so gloat to hesitate
They will not stir for blows --
Time feels so vast that were it not
© Emily Dickinson
Time feels so vast that were it not
For an Eternity --
I fear me this Circumference
Engross my Finity --
Time does go on --
© Emily Dickinson
Time does go on --
I tell it gay to those who suffer now --
They shall survive --
There is a sun --
They don't believe it now --
Three times -- we parted -- Breath -- and I --
© Emily Dickinson
Three times -- we parted -- Breath -- and I --
Three times -- He would not go --
But strove to stir the lifeless Fan
The Waters -- strove to stay.
They say that "Time assuages" --
© Emily Dickinson
They say that "Time assuages" --
Time never did assuage --
An actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age --
There's the Battle of Burgoyne --
© Emily Dickinson
There's the Battle of Burgoyne --
Over, every Day,
By the Time that Man and Beast
Put their work away
The Winters are so short
© Emily Dickinson
The Winters are so short --
I'm hardly justified
In sending all the Birds away --
And moving into Pod --
