Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!

[eldritchhobbit]

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)

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We've been to Caerleon (his home town) a couple of times, where there's nowhere to buy his books. I'll try to go to Newport library soon, to (a) read some interesting stuff and (b) show that it is being used.