Personal Effects Reveal/Quotes

Death sets a Thing significant
The Eye had hurried by
Except a perished Creature
Entreat us tenderly


To ponder little Workmanships
In Crayon, or in Wool,
With "This was last Her fingers did"--
Industrious until--


The Thimble weighed too heavy--
The stitches stopped--by themselves--
And then 'twas put among the Dust
Upon the Closet shelves--


A Book I have--a friend gave--
Whose Pencil--here and there--
Had notched the place that pleased Him--
At Rest--His fingers are--


Now--when I read--I read not--
For interrupting Tears--
Obliterate the Etchings

Too Costly for Repairs.

—Emily Dickinson