Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) | ||||||||
You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- Yet fed you hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest-- Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear! O sweet, dead Silencer, most suddenly clear When singing that Eternity possessed And plundered momently in every breast; #NAME? The harvest you descried and understand Needs more than wit to gather, love to bind. Some reconcilement of remotest mind-- Leaves Ormus rubyless, and Ophir chill. Else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS by ROBERT BLY WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION: 2 by MARTHA COLLINS EMILY DICKINSON AND GERARD MANELY HOPKINS by MADELINE DEFREES SITTING WITH MYSELF IN THE SETON HALL DELI AT 12 O'CLOCK THURSDAY by TOI DERRICOTTE POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR by NORMAN DUBIE HOMAGE TO DICKINSON by LYNN EMANUEL A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON by ANNIE FINCH MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD by ALICE FULTON EPISODE OF HANDS by HAROLD HART CRANE FORGETFULNESS by HAROLD HART CRANE PRAISE FOR AN URN; IN MEMORIAM: ERNEST NELSON by HAROLD HART CRANE |
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