Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Three: Love
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| ’T WAS a long parting, but the time | |
| For interview had come; | |
| Before the judgment-seat of God, | |
| The last and second time | |
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| These fleshless lovers met, | 5 |
| A heaven in a gaze, | |
| A heaven of heavens, the privilege | |
| Of one another’s eyes. | |
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| No lifetime set on them, | |
| Apparelled as the new | 10 |
| Unborn, except they had beheld, | |
| Born everlasting now. | |
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| Was bridal e’er like this? | |
| A paradise, the host, | |
| And cherubim and seraphim | 15 |
| The most familiar guest. | |
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