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[774] It is a lonesome Glee --

Commentary by
Ivan M. Granger

Themes

Birds

Bliss

Sky

Sound

Recommended Books

	American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich, by Wendy Martin
	Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd / Edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
	The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson
	Dickinson: Poems: Everyman's Pocket Library, by Emily Dickinson
	Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief: (Library of Religious Biography), by Roger Lundin

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It is a lonesome Glee --
Yet sanctifies the Mind --
With fair association --
Afar upon the Wind

A bird to overhear
Delight without a Cause --
Arrestless as invisible --
A matter of the Skies.

1863

-- from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

Emily, tell us: Just what is your "lonesome Glee" that "sanctifies the Mind"? What is this "Delight without a Cause" that is as unstopable as it is invisible?

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