Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I KNOW THAT HE EXISTS, by EMILY DICKINSON


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I KNOW THAT HE EXISTS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have crawled too far!
Subject(s): God; Faith


I know that He exists.
Somewhere - in Silence -
He has hid his rare life
From our gross eyes.

'Tis an instant's play.
'Tis a fond Ambush -
Just to make Bliss
Earn her own surprise!

But - should the play
Prove piercing earnest -
Should the glee - glaze -
In Death's - stiff - stare -

Would not the fun
Look too expensive!
Would not the jest -
Have crawled too far!








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