Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LAST NIGHT THAT SHE LIVED, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: Our faith to regulate
Subject(s): Death


We noticed smallest things, -
Things overlooked before,
By this great light upon our minds
Italicized, as 't were.

That others could exist
While she must finish quite,
A jealousy for her arose
So nearly infinite.

We waited while she passed;
It was a narrow time,
Too jostled were our souls to speak,
At length the notice came.
She mentioned, and forgot;
Then lightly as a reed
Bent to the water, shivered scarce,
Consented, and was dead.

And we, we placed the hair,
And drew the head erect;
And then an awful leisure was,
Our faith to regulate.




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