 Could you believe me — without? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur — and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves — Would this do just as well?  Stories and Portraits of the Self - 138 psl.redagavo - 2007 - 332 psl.Ribota peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Albert Shaw - 1892 - 790 psl.
...Higginson requested her to send him her picture. Here is the answer : " Could you believe me without "i I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren...that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well ?" When Mr. Higginson saw her he found that it did quite well. Her father, like the fathers of so many... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1906 - 492 psl.
...request was as characteristically piquant as her answer to his question of her age: — [July, 1862.] Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now,...the wren ; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr ; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well?... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1911 - 440 psl.
...her to send a photograph, she answers that she has no picture, and adds this nai've penportrait: "I am small like the wren, and my hair is bold like the red chestnut burr, and my eyes like the sherry in the glass which the guest leaves. Would this do just... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 psl.
...an achievement of the highest type." THE PROFOUND TRIVIALITIES OF A LITTLE SISTER OF THE POETS 1HAVE no portrait now, but am small like the wren, and my...like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves!" This was Emily Dickinson's portrait of herself to a stranger friend who asked for a photograph. A striking... | |
 | Marsden Hartley - 1921 - 282 psl.
...— who gave so charming a portrait of herself to the stranger friend who inquired for a photograph : "I had no portrait now, but am small like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr, and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves," this written in July, 1862 —... | |
 | Marsden Hartley - 1921 - 288 psl.
...photograph: "I had no portrait now, but am small like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr, and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves," this written in July, 1862 — shall be of course familiar with the undeniable originality of her personality,... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 468 psl.
...person she described herself as "small, like the wren; and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves." "You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog large as myself." These, and not... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 448 psl.
...breathing as she did the intoxicating air of Transcendentalism. In person she described herself as "small, like the wren; and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves." "You ask of my companions.... | |
 | Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi - 1924 - 428 psl.
...my preceptor, Mr. Higginson? To the same [In reply to a request for a likeness of her] [July, 1862] Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now,...like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry hi the glass that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well?... | |
 | Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi - 1924 - 432 psl.
...without? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well? It often alarms father. He says death might occur, and he has moulds of all the rest, but has no mould... | |
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