Monday, November 5, 2012

An Emily Dickinson Poem

(472)


Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The distance would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.

But just to hear the grace depart
I never thought to see,
Afflicts me with a double loss;
’Tis lost, and lost to me.



(ca. 1864)

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