Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Parting

My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

1. Memorials
2. I Went to Heaven
3. There Is a Shame of Nobleness
4. Triumph
5. Pompless No Life Can Pass Away

Ella Wilcox Parting ("Lean down, and kiss me, O my love, my own;")

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