Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

  • Not a critical or scholarly text but a reading text for a seminar

  • Gratefully adapted from various web sources

Emily Dickinson

Selected Poetry




[I reason, Earth is short--]


Emily Dickinson (1830-86)
(daguerrotype taken app. 1846)

I reason, Earth is short
And Anguishabsolute
And many hurt,
But, what of that?

I reason, we could die
The best Vitality
Cannot excel Decay,
But, what of that?

I reason, that in Heaven
Somehow, it will be even
Some new Equation, given
But, what of that?
 

 

 

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