Emily Dickinson: [777] The Loneliness One dare not sound

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[777] The Loneliness One dare not sound

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by Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

Christian : Protestant

19th Century

The Loneliness One dare not sound --
And would as soon surmise
As in its Grave go plumbing
To ascertain the size --

The Loneliness whose worst alarm
Is lest itself should see --
And perish from before itself
For just a scrutiny --

The Horror not to be surveyed --
But skirted in the Dark --
With Consciousness suspended --
And Being under Lock --

I fear me this -- is Loneliness --
The Maker of the soul
Its Caverns and its Corridors
Illuminate -- or seal --

1863

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

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Themes

Death

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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