When “here” means “within brick,” we can know what “died” means. But in the light around the clouds that Luke Howard looked up to learn, there is no such thing as the no longer changing.
cloud
Zoology of the spectrum
Antithesis: wings having opened in the azure, it is no longer barren.
The thesis, below, is from the Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873). This meditation on the meaning of nature was first published in 1860 — that is, in the era of In Memoriam and a year after The Origin of Species — but in its time it went almost unread. Tuckerman’s brother Edward (1817-1886) taught botany at Amherst College and his wife was one of Emily Dickinson’s correspondents, but there is no evidence that Dickinson knew of Frederick or his work.
Tread lightly
Cimeter
*. IIf you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter.
Blue without fail
Plus ultra
Pioneer
White irruption: for the change of seasons
Harbinger
Kilovolt pastel
