Homage to Hearth through selected poems of Emily Dickinson

The baronial hearth in the great room at Wrentham House was glowing over the weekend, after 40 years unlit!

Wrentham House was built in 1891 by Richard Morris Hunt (1827- 1895), a contemporary of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

Homage to Wrentham House through selected poems of Emily Dickinson

..As low my fires of drift-wood burn,
I hear that sea's deep sounds increase,
And, fair in sunset light, discern
Its mirage-lifted Isles of Peace.

from 'the chariot' Emily Dickinson

MANSIONS
"Houses" -- so the Wise Men tell me --
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there --
Some, would even trudge tonight!
Emily Dickinson

In rags mysterious as these
The shining Courtiers go --
Veiling the purple, and the plumes --
Veiling the ermine so.
Smiling, as they request an alms --
At some imposing door!
Smiling when we walk barefoot
Upon their golden floor!
Emily Dickinson



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