Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DROWNING IS NOT SO PITIFUL, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: And the bewildered gymnast
Subject(s): Drowning; Fate


Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise
Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode,
Where hope and he part company -
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker's cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.




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