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Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
I Years had been from Home
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I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter, lest a Face
I never saw before
Stare solid into mine
And ask my Business there—
“My Business but a Life I left
Was such remaining there?”
I leaned upon the Awe—
I lingered with Before—
The Second like an Ocean rolled
And broke against my ear—
I laughed a crumbling Laugh
That I could fear a Door
Who Consternation compassed
And never winced before.
I fitted to the Latch
My Hand, with trembling care
Lest back the awful Door should spring
And leave me in the Floor—
Then moved my Fingers off
As cautiously as Glass
And held my ears, and like a Thief
Fled gasping from the House—
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
1830 - 1886
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1830 - 1886
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