Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IT MIGHT BE LONLIER, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: To perish — of delight —
Subject(s): Solitude; Peace; Fate


It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness -
I'm so accustomed to my Fate -
Perhaps the Other - Peace -

Would interrupt the Dark -
And crowd the little Room -
Too scant - by Cubits - to contain
The Sacrament - of Him -

I am not used to Hope -
It might intrude upon -
Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place -
Ordained to Suffering -

It might be easier
To fail - with Land in Sight -
Than gain - My Blue Peninsula -
To perish - of Delight -




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