Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HE TOUCHED ME, SO I LIVE TO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: To her imperial sun
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life


He touched me, so I live to know
That such a day, permitted so,
I groped upon his breast -
It was a boundless place to me
And silenced, as the awful sea
Puts minor streams to rest.

And now, I'm different from before,
As if I breathed superior air -
Or brushed a Royal Gown -
My feet, too, that had wandered so -
My Gypsy face - transfigured now -
To tenderer Renown -

Into this Port, if I might come,
Rebecca, to Jerusalem,
Would not so ravished turn -
Nor Persian, baffled at her shrine
Lift such a Crucifixial sign
To her imperial Sun.




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