Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| ONE need not be a chamber to be haunted, | |
| One need not be a house; | |
| The brain has corridors surpassing | |
| Material place. | |
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| Far safer, of a midnight meeting | 5 |
| External ghost, | |
| Than an interior confronting | |
| That whiter host. | |
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| Far safer through an Abbey gallop, | |
| The stones achase, | 10 |
| Than, moonless, one’s own self encounter | |
| In lonesome place. | |
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| Ourself, behind ourself concealed, | |
| Should startle most; | |
| Assassin, hid in our apartment, | 15 |
| Be horror’s least. | |
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| The prudent carries a revolver, | |
| He bolts the door, | |
| O’erlooking a superior spectre | |
| More near. | 20 |
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