Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| THE SUN kept setting, setting still; | |
| No hue of afternoon | |
| Upon the village I perceived,— | |
| From house to house ’t was noon. | |
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| The dusk kept dropping, dropping still; | 5 |
| No dew upon the grass, | |
| But only on my forehead stopped, | |
| And wandered in my face. | |
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| My feet kept drowsing, drowsing still, | |
| My fingers were awake; | 10 |
| Yet why so little sound myself | |
| Unto my seeming make? | |
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| How well I knew the light before! | |
| I could not see it now. | |
| ’T is dying, I am doing; but | 15 |
| I ’m not afraid to know. | |
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