By homely gift and hindered Words The human heart is told Of Nothing "Nothing" is the force That renovates

s the World 1

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody Too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise you know!

How dreary to be Somebody! How public like a Frog To tell one's name the livelong June To an admiring Bog!2

Let down the Bars, Oh Death The tired Flocks come in Whose beating ceases to repeat Whose wandering is done

Thine is the stillest night

Dickinson, Emily. Poem 1563 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas E. Johnson, Faber & Faber, 1970. p.650 2 Ibid. Poem 288. p.133

Thine the securest Fold Too near art thou for seeking Thee Too tender, to be told.3

WATER is taught by thirst; Land, by the oceans passed; Transport, by throe; Peace, by its battles told; Love, by memorial mould; Birds, by the snow.4

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind -His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.5

3 4 5

Ibid. Poem 1065 p.485 Ibid.Poem 133 Ibid.Poem 1158