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 I think I was enchanted by Emily Dickinson
I think I was enchanted
When first a sombre Girl -- I read that Foreign Lady -- The Dark -- felt beautiful -- And whether it was noon at night -- Or only Heaven -- at Noon -- For very Lunacy of Light I had not power to tell -- The Bees -- became as Butterflies -- The Butterflies -- as Swans -- Approached -- and spurned the narrow Grass -- And just the meanest Tunes That Nature murmured to herself To keep herself in Cheer -- I took for Giants -- practising Titanic Opera -- The Days -- to Mighty Metres stept -- The Homeliest -- adorned As if unto a Jubilee 'Twere suddenly confirmed -- I could not have defined the change -- Conversion of the Mind Like Sanctifying in the Soul -- Is witnessed -- not explained -- 'Twas a Divine Insanity -- The Danger to be Sane Should I again experience -- 'Tis Antidote to turn -- To Tomes of solid Witchcraft -- Magicians be asleep -- But Magic -- hath an Element Like Deity -- to keep -- |
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