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“This life is so good, that it seems impossible for it to be wholly interrupted by death.”

Martha Dickinson Bianchi pointed out that her aunt sometimes addressed her mother as “You from whom I never run away.”

Susan – I would
have come out
of Eden to open
the Door for you
if I had known
you were there.

I must wait
a few Days
before seeing
you – You are
too momentous.
But remember
it is idolatry,
not indifference.
Emily.

But Susan is
a Stranger yet –
The Ones who
cite her most
Have never scaled
her Haunted House
Nor compromised
her Ghost –
To pity those who
know her not
Is helped by the
regret
That those who
know her know
her less
The nearer her
they get –
Emily –

To own a
Susan of
my own
Is of itself
a Bliss –
Whatever
Realm I
forfeit, Lord,
Continue
me in this!
Emily.

It is possible that Susan may have removed something she considered too confidential, or that she may have placed lines of verse in one of her scrapbooks.

hacía collages con los poemas que le mandaba la novia 😭

Susan knows
she is a Siren –
and that at a
word from her,
Emily would
forfeit Righteousness –

Egypt, thou knew’st too well,
My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,
And thou shouldst tow me after. O’er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew’st, and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.

immortal longings??!

To miss you, Sue,
is power.
The stimulus
of Loss makes
most Possession
mean.
To live lasts
always, but to
love is firmer
than to live.
No Heart that
broke but further
went than
Immortality.