Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| BEREAVED of all, I went abroad, | |
| No less bereaved to be | |
| Upon a new peninsula,— | |
| The grave preceded me, | |
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| Obtained my lodgings ere myself, | 5 |
| And when I sought my bed, | |
| The grave it was, reposed upon | |
| The pillow for my head. | |
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| I waked, to find it first awake, | |
| I rose,—it followed me; | 10 |
| I tried to drop it in the crowd, | |
| To lose it in the sea, | |
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| In cups of artificial drowse | |
| To sleep its shape away,— | |
| The grave was finished, but the spade | 15 |
| Remained in memory. | |
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