Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
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Title
Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.
1914
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XXIX. TRYING TO FORGET.
BEREAVED of all, I went abroad,No less bereaved to beUpon a new peninsula, —The grave preceded me,
Obtained my lodgings ere myself,And when I sought my bed,The grave it was, reposed uponThe pillow for my head.
I waked, to find it first awake,I rose, — it followed me;I tried to drop it in the crowd,To lose it in the sea,
In cups of artificial drowseTo sleep its shape away, —The grave was finished, but the spadeRemained in memory.
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