Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life LXXXIII |
| JUST lost when I was saved! | |
| Just felt the world go by! | |
| Just girt me for the onset with eternity, | |
| When breath blew back, | |
| And on the other side | 5 |
| I heard recede the disappointed tide! | |
| Therefore, as one returned, I feel, | |
| Odd secrets of the line to tell! | |
| Some sailor, skirting foreign shores, | |
| Some pale reporter from the awful doors | 10 |
| Before the seal! | |
| Next time, to stay! | |
| Next time, the things to see | |
| By ear unheard, | |
| Unscrutinized by eye. | 15 |
| Next time, to tarry, | |
| While the ages steal,— | |
| Slow tramp the centuries, | |
| And the cycles wheel. |
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