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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.

He will tell me what Peter promised,
And I, for wonder at his woe,
I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now, that scalds me now.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Love's Humility
  2. What Soft, Cherubic Creatures
  3. Desire
  4. Power
  5. Is Bliss, Then, Such Abyss


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