Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON



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First Line: My life closed twice before its close
Last Line: And all we need of hell.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If immortality unveil
A third event to me,
.
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.




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