Emily Dickinson Earth Poems

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I reason, Earth is short—
And Anguish—absolute—
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High from the earth I heard a bird;
He trod upon the trees
As he esteemed them trifles,
And then he spied a breeze,
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent
As that endured
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The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
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So much of Heaven has gone from Earth
That there must be a Heaven
If only to enclose the Saints
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As from the earth the light Balloon
Asks nothing but release -
Ascension that for which it was,
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