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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


No Time to Hate


I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity.

Nor had I time to love, but since
Some industry must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. A Service of Song
  2. Love’s Baptism
  3. Rouge et Noir
  4. Rouge Gagne
  5. Renunciation


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