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(prose fragments pf120) "What Lethargies of Loneliness"

(prose fragments pf117) "two things i have lost with Childhood - the rapture of losing my shoe in the mud and going home barefoot, wading for Cardinal flowers and the mothers reproof which was (for) more for my sake than her weary own for she frowned with a smile [now Mother and Cardinal flower are parts of a closed world]"

(prose fragments pf48) "[Throngs who would not prize them, know those holy circumstances which your dear Eyes have sought for mine. I hope it may sometime be that you will chance."

(prose fragments pf32) "emerging from an Abyss and entering it again - that is Life, is it not?"

(to mrs. john jameson, 1886) "how dare a Tear intrude on so sweet a Cheek?"

(to t. w. higginson, 1886) "The Asterisk is for the Dead,/ The Living, for the Stars-"

(to susan gilbert dickinson, 1886) "thank you, dear Sue - for every solace -"

(to eugenia hall, 1885) "Let me thank the little Cousin in flowers, which without lips, have language -"

(to benjamin kimball, 1885) "For what are Stars but Asterisks/ To point a human Life?"

(to charles h. clark, 1885) "but a Letter is a joy of Earth - it is denied the Gods"

(to mrs. j. g. holland, 1883) "Open the Door, open the Door, they are waiting for me" was Gilbert's sweet command in delirium. Who were waiting for him, all we possess we would give to know - Anguish at last opened it, and he ran to the little Grave at his Grandparents' feet - all this and more, though is there more? More than Love and Death? then tell me it's name!"

(to frances norcross, 1881) "tell us when you are happy, but be sure and tell us when you are sad, for Emily's heart is the edifice where the 'wicked cease from troubling'"

(to mrs. samuel bowles, 1881) "there should be no tear on your cheek, dear, had my hand the access to brush it away"

(to susan gilbert dickinson, 1878) "to others - but there are no others -"

(to susan gilbert dickinson, 1878) "Susan - i dreamed of you, last night, and send a Carnation to indorse it - "