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| Emily Dickinson |
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her
to return home after one year....
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| There's a certain Slant of light (258)
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by Emily Dickinson |
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There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are –
None may teach it – Any –
'Tis the Seal Despair –
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air –
When it comes, the Landscape listens –
Shadows – hold their breath –
When it goes, 'tis like the Distance
On the look of Death –
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Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin
ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright
© 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright ©
1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. |
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