Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I SHALL KNOW WHY, WHEN TIME IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: That scalds me now – that scalds me now!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.)


I shall know why - when Time is over -

And I have ceased to wonder why -

Christ will explain each separate anguish

In the fair schoolroom of the sky -




He will tell me what "Peter" promised -

And I - for wonder at his woe -
I shall forget the drop of Anguish

That scalds me now - that scalds me now!




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