Tag: Emily Dickinson

  • The Value of Pleasing Men

    I ‘M nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there ‘s a pair of us — don’t tell!
    They ‘d banish us, you know.

    How dreary to be somebody
    How public, like a frog
    To tell your name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!

    –Emily Dickinson

    Contrast this bit of verse to Galatians 1:10.  It seems the Apostle Paul and Emily Dickinson had the same distaste for trying to please men.

  • The Wife

    She rose to his requirement, dropped
    The playthings of her life
    To take the honorable work
    Of woman and of wife.

    If aught she missed in her new day
    Of amplitude, or awe,
    Or first prospective, or the gold
    In using wore away,

    It lay unmentioned, as the sea
    Develops pearl and weed,
    But only to himself is known
    The fathoms they abide.

    –Emily Dickinson

    Bonus: Compare to Proverbs 31:10ff