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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


The Journey


Our journey had advanced —
Our feet were almost come
To that odd Fork in Being's Road —
Eternity — by Term —

Our pace took sudden awe —
Our feet — reluctant — led —
Before — were Cities — but Between —
The Forest of the Dead —

Retreat — was out of Hope —
Behind — a Sealed Route —
Eternity's White Flag — Before —
And God — at every Gate — 



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Contrast
  2. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
  3. This Merit Hath the Worst
  4. In Lands I Never Saw, They Say
  5. Who Robbed the Woods


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Josephine Peabody The Journey ("I never saw the hills so far")
  • Charles Churchill The Journey ("Some of my friends (for friends I must suppose")

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