Because I am not religious, I feel nothing when I read the many poems by Emily Dickinson that convey pious thoughts in conventional terms. What force me to sit up and take notice are the poems that evoke, in her own way, the unsettling mental states that precede religion....
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by Emily Dickinson.
Presentiment -- is that long Shadow -- on the Lawn --
Indicative that Suns go down --
The Notice to the startled Grass
That Darkness -- is about to pass --
c. 1863
From
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson.
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1960.
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