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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered him.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Superiority to Fate
  2. Hope (Hope is a subtle glutton)
  3. The Forgotten Grave
  4. Forbidden Fruit. I
  5. I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise


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