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Poems by Emily Dickinson

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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[This is my letter to the world]

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II. BEQUEST.

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[III. Alter? When the hills do]

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[VI. If you were coming in the fall]

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VII. WITH A FLOWER.

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[IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart]

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X. TRANSPLANTED.

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XI. THE OUTLET.

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XIII. RENUNCIATION.

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XIV. LOVE'S BAPTISM.

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XV. RESURRECTION.

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XVI. APOCALYPSE.

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XVII. THE WIFE.

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XVIII. APOTHEOSIS.

IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.

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II.
BEQUEST.

You left me, sweet, two legacies,—
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.