The way Hope builds his House
The way Hope builds his House It is not with a sill -- Nor Rafter -- has that Edifice But only Pinnacle --
Abode in as supreme This superficies As if it were of Ledges smit Or mortised with the Laws --
Emily Dickinson
The way Hope builds his House It is not with a sill -- Nor Rafter -- has that Edifice But only Pinnacle --
Abode in as supreme This superficies As if it were of Ledges smit Or mortised with the Laws --
Emily Dickinson treats hope not as a feeling but as an architect with a strange method. The house hope builds has no sill to anchor it, no rafters to frame it — only a pinnacle, a sharpened top. There is no base, no solid middle; just this airy extremity that seems to hover.
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