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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted opon Earth –

The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity –



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Our Journey Had Advanced
  2. We Learned the Whole of Love
  3. Doom is the House without the Door
  4. I Send Two Sunsets
  5. Should You but Fail at — Sea


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