---

Emily Dickinson - T`is So Much Joy
Work rating: Medium

’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy!
If I should fail, what poverty! 
And yet, as poor as I 
Have ventured all upon a throw;
Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so 
This side the victory! 

Life is but life, and death but death! 
Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! 
And if, indeed, I fail, 
At least to know the worst is sweet.
Defeat means nothing but defeat, 
No drearier can prevail! 

And if I gain,—oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the steeples be, 
At first repeat it slow!
For heaven is a different thing 
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o’erwhelm me so!
Source
The script ran 0 seconds.