I have a King, who does not speak
Emily Dickinson
Track 34 on Third Series
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I have a King, who does not speak Lyrics
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I have a King, who does not speak
So—wondering—thro' the hours meek
I trudge the day away
Half glad when it is night, and sleep
If, haply, thro' a dream, to peep
In parlors, shut by day
And if I do—when morning comes
It is as if a hundred drums
Did round my pillow roll
And shouts fill all my Childish sky
And Bells keep saying "Victory"
From steeples in my soul!
And if I don't—the little Bird
Within the Orchard, is not heard
And I omit to pray
"Father, thy will be done" today
For my will goes the other way
And it were perjury!
I have a King, who does not speak
So—wondering—thro' the hours meek
I trudge the day away
Half glad when it is night, and sleep
If, haply, thro' a dream, to peep
In parlors, shut by day
And if I do—when morning comes
It is as if a hundred drums
Did round my pillow roll
And shouts fill all my Childish sky
And Bells keep saying "Victory"
From steeples in my soul!
And if I don't—the little Bird
Within the Orchard, is not heard
And I omit to pray
"Father, thy will be done" today
For my will goes the other way
And it were perjury!
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- 3.Hope
- 12.A Syllable
- 13.Parting
- 14.Aspiration
- 15.The Inevitable
- 16.A Book
- 18.A Portrait
- 23.The Lost Thought
- 24.Reticence
- 25.With Flowers
- 28.Contrast
- 29.Friends
- 30.Fire
- 31.A Man
- 32.Ventures
- 33.Griefs
- 34.I have a King, who does not speak
- 35.Disenchantment
- 36.Lost Faith
- 37.Lost Joy
- 40.Alpine Glow
- 41.Remembrance
- 43.The Brain
- 45.The Past
- 48.Desire
- 49.Philosophy
- 50.Power
- 53.Experience
- 54.Thanksgiving Day
- 55.Childish Griefs
- 56.Consecration
- 57.Love’s Humility
- 58.Love
- 59.Satisfied
- 60.With A Flower
- 61.Song
- 62.Loyalty
- 65.Forgotten
- 67.The Master
- 72.Who?
- 74.Dreams
- 75.Numen Lumen
- 76.Nature’s changes
- 77.The Tulip
- 79.The Waking Year
- 81.March
- 82.Dawn (Version 2)
- 86.A Rose
- 88.Cobwebs
- 89.A Well
- 93.The Woodpecker
- 94.Snake
- 96.The Moon
- 97.The Bat
- 98.The Balloon
- 99.Evening
- 100.Cocoon
- 101.Sunset
- 102.Aurora
- 103.The Coming Of Night
- 104.Aftermath
- 109.Ending
- 114.Immortality
- 117.Death
- 118.Unwarned
- 121.Asleep
- 123.The Monument
- 131.Invisible
- 133.Trying To Forget
- 136.Waiting
- 140.Farewell
- 142.Dead
- 147.Joy In Death
- 154.The Soul’s Storm
- 156.Thirst
- 162.Retrospect
- 163.Eternity
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