 As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away — Too imperceptible at last To seem like Perfidy — A Quietness distilled As Twilight long begun, Or Nature spending with herself Sequestered Afternoon — The Dusk drew earlier in — The Morning foreign...  Poems: 2nd series - Page 168by Emily Dickinson - 1891 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - American literature - 1909 - 412 pages
...a higher life — may well end with her description of the death of the very summer she so loved. " As imperceptibly as grief The summer lapsed away, Too imperceptible at last To feel like perfidy. " A quietness distilled, As twilight long begun, Or Nature spending with herself... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - American essays - 1911 - 440 pages
...measure off another day For an approving God. She tells us how softly the summer sometimes departs : As imperceptibly as grief The summer lapsed away. Too Imperceptible at last To seem like perfidy. And thus without a wing Or service of a keel, Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful.... | |
 | American essays - 1891 - 1024 pages
...to a higher life — may well end with her description of the death of the very summer she so loved. As imperceptibly as grief The summer lapsed away, Too imperceptible at last To feel like perfidy. A quietness distilled, As twilight long begun, Or Nature spending with herself Sequestered... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Biography & Autobiography - 1969 - 48 pages
...In one of her most majestic poems, "As imperceptibly as Grief," when the summer has "lapsed away," The Dusk drew earlier in — The Morning foreign shone — A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone— (1540) The morning sunshine is foreign because alien, intractable in its resistance... | |
 | Judy Jo Small - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...treatment of the "harrowing Grace" of a passing season: As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed awayToo imperceptible at last To seem like Perfidy A Quietness...herself Sequestered Afternoon The Dusk drew earlier inThe Morning foreign shone A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone And thus,... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - Poetry - 1993 - 140 pages
...you and I, And higher, I believe, So soar away and never sigh And that's the way to grieve 1894 120 As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away Too...shone A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone And thus, without a Wing Or service of a Keel Our Summer made her light escape Into... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 566 pages
...Bedeutung ist. i6 Vgl. Dickinson, The Complete Poems, pp. 642 f. Das Gedicht hat folgenden Wortlaut: "As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away...— / A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, / As Guest, that would be gone — / And thus, without a Wing / Or service of a Keel / Our Summer made her light... | |
 | George S. Lensing - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 412 pages
...from the Myrrh-Mountain" is, at one level, a rewriting of Dickinson's "As imperceptibly as Grief": As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away — Too imperceptible at last To seem like perfidy.7' But if Dickinson's "Morning foreign shone" in late summer, Stevens' is still "Brightly empowered... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 2006 - 446 pages
...apresta a irse. Y así, sin alas ni servicio de quilla, a la belleza huyó nuestro verano ligeramente. As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away...— / A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, / As Guest, that would be gone — / And thus, without a Wing / Or service of a Keel / Our Summer made her light... | |
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