Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

Appendix A: Poems on the Orient

197 Appendix A Poems on the Orient 1858 F14 As if I asked a common alms – [I asked the Orient] F16 The feet of people walking home [Pearls are the Diver’s farthings] F35 Sleep is supposed to be [East of Eternity] 1859 F98 South winds jostle them – [passage Cashmere] F104 A something in a summer’s Day [the East . . . Caravan] F111 Artists wrestled here! [a tint Cashmere] F120 As Watchers hang opon the East – [Deserts, Amethyst] F121 Her breast is fit for pearls, [I was not a “Diver”] 1860 F131 Tho’ my destiny be Fustian – [my little Gipsey being] F136 Who never lost, are unprepared [Tamarind] F141 She died at play – [as gaily as a Turk] F145 A little East of Jordan, F162 Some Rainbow – coming from the Fair! [turbaned seas] F176 If I could bribe them by a Rose [Amherst to Cashmere] 1861 F201 With thee, in the Desert – [Tamarind, Leopard] F206 Least Rivers – docile to some sea. / My Caspian – thee. F228 My eye is fuller than my vase – [East India] F248 One life of so much consequence! [Pearl, dive] 1862 F276 Civilization – spurns – the Leopard! [the Pard – that left her Asia] F285 The Love a Life can show Below [enamors in the East] F312 I can wade Grief – [Himmaleh] F326 The lonesome for they know not What – / The Eastern Exiles 198 F333 Many a phrase has the English language – [Caspian Choirs] F334 Of all the Sounds despatched abroad – [Caravan of sound] F349 He touched me, so I live to know [Nor Persian] F352 They leave us with the Infinite. [Himmaleh] F356 If you were coming in the Fall, [Van Dieman’s Land] F388 It would never be Common – more – I said – [drop – of India] F410 How sick – to wait – in any place – but thine – [spicy isles] F417 Removed from Accident of Loss [Pearls in Eastern Waters] F418 Your Riches – taught me – Poverty. [India – all Day] F426 I gave Myself to Him – [Fable – in the Isles of spice] F451 The Malay – took the Pearl – F460 The Himmaleh was known to stoop F495 The Day undressed – Herself – [Bosporus] 1863 F506 Light is sufficient to itself – [Himmaleh] F511 He found my Being – set it up – [bade it to the East] F513 The Spider holds a Silver Ball [Yarn of Pearl] F529 A Dying Tiger – moaned for Drink – F549 The One that could repeat the Summer Day – [Orient] F572 The Day came slow – till Five o’clock – [Rubies, the East] F584 We dream – it is good we are dreaming – [phrase in Egyptian] F661 Some such Butterfly be seen [Spice, Foreigners] F666 I cross till I am weary [Asiatic Rains] F696 The Tint I cannot take – is best – [Bazaar, Cleopatra’s Company] F705 I am ashamed – I hide – [Cashmere, Pearl] F716 Shells from the Coast mistaking – [Pearl, Pearl] F739 Joy to have merited the Pain – [Orient’s Apparition] F748 God gave a Loaf to every Bird – [An Indiaman] F749 Where Thou art – that – is Home – [Cashmere, Bands of Spice] F770 Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds [The Camel’s trait] 1864 F836 Color – Caste – Denomination – [Circassian] F846 A Drop fell on the Apple Tree – [Pearls, Orient] F849 By my Window have I for Scenery [Sea, Spice] 1865 F942 Always Mine! [Old, indeed, the East] F988 Said Death to Passion [All His East] F1064 As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies [Tiger] 198 Appendix A 199 F1090 This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies [an Oriental Circuit] F1102 Dew – is the Freshet in the Grass – [Nature’s Caravan] F1118 Reportless Subjects, to the Quick [Oriental] 1868 F1147 The Bird did prance – the Bee did play – [Caspian] 1869 F1162 A Mine there is no Man would own [Indies] 1872 F1262 Until the Desert knows [Caspian Fact] 1878 F1462 Brother of Ophir F1471 His Mind like Fabrics of the East – 1879 F1487 Belshazzar had a Letter F1488 One of the ones that Midas touched [splendor of a Burmah] F1509 How destitute is he [India] 1881 F1562 His oriental heresies F1563 No Autumn’s intercepting Chill [Asiatic Rest] Undated F1777 To lose thee – sweeter than to gain [Caspian] Appendix A 199 “This page intentionally left blank” ...