https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/88/dwell.mp3

I am smitten by this and wanted to share.


I dwell in Possibility

BY EMILY DICKINSON

I dwell in Possibility
A fairer House than Prose
More numerous of Windows
Superior for Doors

Of Chambers as the Cedars
Impregnable of eye
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky

Of Visitors – the fairest
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise

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That's really nice. The title kinda took me somewhere else. A parody of Stevie Nicks' "Leather and Lace". Give me your pleasure, take from me my pain.

I do enjoy Emily Dickinson. The one you posted is brilliant.

Here's a favorite of mine.


Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school, where children strove
At recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;
The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown,
My tippet only tulle.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

Ladywind,

" . . . to gather paradise. " - Go big Emmy!! Go get 'em, big Em!

Thanks Ladywind for sharing Emily's work with us,

tommy boy / Ireland

I am wondering if the pennsound mp3 worked? It does not on my part of the globe....

Sadly not from my end either:



Fantastic reading nonetheless

lovely