Showing posts with label Dickinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dickinson. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2011

"It's all I have" by Emily Dickenson

It's all I have to bring to-day
This, and my heart beside
THis, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide.
Be sure you count, should I forget, -
Someone the sum could tell, -
This, and my heart, and all the bees
Which in the clover dwell.

-Emily Dickinson

Monday, June 13, 2011

Practicing Latin - Name These Poems!

Eremo ambulavi
Et vocavi:
"Heu, Domini, capisse me illo loco!"
Vox inquit, "Est non eremus."
Vocavi, "Autem, sed -
Arena, calor, vacuus horizon."
Vox inquit, "Est non eremus."
--
Viridis primus naturae aurum est
Arduissimus color ad tentandum
Priscum folium est flos
Sed vix horam
Tum folium ad folium concidit
Sic Eden ad dolorem cecidit
Sic aurora ad diem ruit [/defluit]
Nihil aurum commorari possit.
--
Mea somnia de agrum longum sunt
Et sangiunem et fumum et glandes
Illic in eorum sepulcros mei socii sunt
In sepulcum meum non sum.

Ego aeque commercium hominis condocefacio
Et rudimentum cantavi palam
Sed cum dedidicerim et curraverim
Memoraverunt et remanserunt.
---
Hiatum in mentem meam sensi
Tamquam cerebellum scidisset
Conatus sum componere comissuram ad comissuram
Sed compellere non possum eos ut concurrant.
Cogitatio avorsa jugare conatus sum
Ad cogitationem priorem
Series retextuerunt longe
Similis pilae super coaxationem.

(Erika and Heather, if I did any of the above wrong, could you tell me where? I have my suspicions about the last one.)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

"I felt a cleaving" by Emily Dickinson

I felt a cleaving in my mind
As if my brain had split
I tried to match it seam by seam
But could not make them fit
The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before
The sequence ravelled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.

--Emily Dickinson