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 oerwhelm me so!

埃米麗迪金森：

美國女詩人埃米麗迪金森的自然觀與她的社會、家庭以及個人閱歷有著極其密切的聯(lián)系。她詩歌中所描繪的自然既反映出愛默生的超驗主義思想 ,又不時地唱出與清教主義旋律相近的曲調(diào)。她熱愛大自然 ,但又夾雜著疑惑和恐懼。她的復雜的心理因素構(gòu)成了她的復雜的自然觀。