Emily Dickinson

Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

 

Bequest

by Emily Dickinson

You left me, sweet, two legacies, --
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.

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Poems
Copyright 1890
Little, Brown, And Company, Boston