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Secular or Eclectic
Christian : Protestant
19th Century

About Emily Dickinson

Timeline (1830 - 1886)

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Original Language
English
[834] Before He comes we weigh the Time!

Themes
  Light
  Womb
 
 
 

 

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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Before He comes we weigh the Time!
'Tis Heavy and 'tis Light.
When He depart, an Emptiness
Is the prevailing Freight.

 

1864

 

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

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