Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DISTANCE THAT THE DEAD HAVE GONE, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: With their dear retrospect
Subject(s): Death, Return From


The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear -
Their coming back seems possible
For many an ardent year.

And then, that we have followed them,
We more than half suspect,
So intimate have we become
With their dear retrospect

The duties of the Wind are few,
To cast the ships, at Sea,
Establish March, the Floods escort,
And usher Liberty.

The pleasures of the Wind are broad,
To dwell Extent among,
Remain, or wander,
Speculate, or Forests entertain.

The kinsmen of the Wind are Peaks
Azof - the Equinox,
Also with Bird and Asteroid
A bowing intercourse.

The limitations of the Wind
Do he exist, or die,
Too wise he seems for Wakelessness,
However, know not I




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