Death & Dying
My life closed twice before its close
Death & Dying
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,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “My life closed twice before its close.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/293/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “My life closed twice before its close.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/293/.
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