| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 536. Love |
| | | By Emily Dickinson |
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CHOICE
OF all the souls that stand create | |
| I have elected one. | |
| When sense from spirit files away, | |
| And subterfuge is done; | |
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| When that which is and that which was | 5 |
| Apart, intrinsic, stand, | |
| And this brief tragedy of flesh | |
| Is shifted like a sand; | |
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| When figures show their royal front | |
| And mists are carved away,— | 10 |
| Behold the atom I preferred | |
| To all the lists of clay! | |
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CONSTANT
ALTER? When the hills do. | |
| Falter? When the sun | |
| Question if his glory | 15 |
| Be the perfect one. | |
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| Surfeit? When the daffodil | |
| Doth of the dew: | |
| Even as herself, O friend! | |
| I will of you! | 20 |
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HEART, WE WILL FORGET HIM
HEART, we will forget him! | |
| You and I, to-night! | |
| You may forget the warmth he gave, | |
| I will forget the light. | |
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| When you have done, pray tell me, | 25 |
| That I my thoughts may dim; | |
| Haste! lest while you ’re lagging, | |
| I may remember him! | |
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