The Mind
Of course I prayed—
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
Of course I prayed—
And did God care?
He cared as much as
On the air
A bird had stamped her foot
And cried "Give me!"
My reason, life
I had not had, but for
Yourself,
'Twere better charity
To leave me in the atom's
Tomb,
Merry and nought, and gay
And numb,
Than this smart misery.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Of course I prayed—.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/554/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Of course I prayed—.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/554/.
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