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Oops. The poem I posted for everyone who wants to join the Poetry Group is by Emily Dickinson #379 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas J. Johnson, ed
I want to reassure you Ive never read an English scholar's interpretations of the poems I post. In fact, I've never read any expert in Emily Dickinson or any other poet (except for Shakespeare and the English Romantics.)
I want to reassure you Ive never read an English scholar's interpretations of the poems I post. In fact, I've never read any expert in Emily Dickinson or any other poet (except for Shakespeare and the English Romantics.)
Oops again! I left out 3 words of the last line of Poem 479. It should read
Remind Us that we died
Remind Us that we died



Of a Withdrawn Delight
Affords a Bliss like Murder
Omnipotent-Acute
We will not drop the Dirk
Because we love the Wound
The Dirk Commemorate--Itself
Remind Us that