Verse > Anthologies > Sara Teasdale, ed. > The Answering Voice
  PREVIOUSNEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women.  1917.
 
Parting
By Emily Dickinson
 
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,        5
  As these that twice befell;
Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.
 
 
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  PREVIOUSNEXT  
 
Loading
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Shakespeare · Bible · Saints · Anatomy · Harvard Classics · Lit. History · Quotations · Poetry
© 1993–2013 Bartleby.com · [Top 150]