Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - 

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth’s superb surprise

 

As Lightning to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind - 

Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers-

Week #2 of the Emily Dickinson Hour of Poetry: Get cultured.

 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers–

That perches in the soul–

And sings the tune without the words–

And never stops — at all –

And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard –

And sore must be the storm –

That could abash the little Bird

That keeps so many warm –

I’ve heard it in the chillest land –

And on the strangest Sea –

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb — of Me.

 

traveling mercies.