Emily Dickinson: The Pile of Years is not so high

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The Pile of Years is not so high

Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Christian poetry

by Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

Christian : Protestant

19th Century

The Pile of Years is not so high
As when you came before
But it is rising every Day
From recollection's Floor
And while by standing on my Heart
I still can reach the top
Efface the mountain with your face
And catch me ere I drop

1880

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

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Themes

Heart

Mountain

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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