Nature
As if the sea should part
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Nature
As if the sea should part
And show a further sea—
And that a further, and the three
But a presumption be
Of periods of seas
Unvisited of shores—
Themselves the verge of seas to be—
Eternity is these.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “As if the sea should part.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/467/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “As if the sea should part.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/467/.
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