He Touched Me, So I Live To Know Poem by Emily Dickinson

He Touched Me, So I Live To Know

Rating: 3.3


506

He touched me, so I live to know
That such a day, permitted so,
I groped upon his breast—
It was a boundless place to me
And silenced, as the awful sea
Puts minor streams to rest.

And now, I'm different from before,
As if I breathed superior air—
Or brushed a Royal Gown—
My feet, too, that had wandered so—
My Gypsy face—transfigured now—
To tenderer Renown—

Into this Port, if I might come,
Rebecca, to Jerusalem,
Would not so ravished turn—
Nor Persian, baffled at her shrine
Lift such a Crucifixial sign
To her imperial Sun.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 19 November 2015

.......love this....a beautiful poem of transformation ★

0 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Amherst / Massachusetts
Close
Error Success