Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I CAN'T TELL YOU, BUT YOU FEEL IT, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: Are prepared to go!
Subject(s): Religion


I can't tell you - but you feel it -
Nor can you tell me -
Saints, with ravished slate and pencil
Solve our April Day!

Sweeter than a vanished frolic
From a vanished green!
Swifter than the hoofs of Horsemen
Round a Ledge of dream!

Modest, let us walk among it
With our faces veiled -
As they say polite Archangels
Do in meeting God!

Not for me - to prate about it!
Not for you - to say
To some fashionable Lady
"Charming April Day"!

Rather - Heaven's "Peter Parley"!
By which Children slow
To sublimer Recitation
Are prepared to go!




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