Time & Brevity
You left me, sweet, two legacies, --
Time & Brevity
You left me, sweet, two legacies, --
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “You left me, sweet, two legacies, --.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/27/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “You left me, sweet, two legacies, --.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/27/.
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