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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Power


You cannot put a fire out;
  A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
  Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood
  And put it in a drawer, --
Because the winds would find it out,
  And tell your cedar floor.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Aleister Crowley Power ("The mighty sound of forests murmuring")

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