THE bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth —
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away;
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
First print Time and Eternity XXII, 22
Johnson 1078 | Franklin 1108
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■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
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Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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