Remorse - Is Memory - Awake - Poem by Emily Dickinson

Remorse - Is Memory - Awake -

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Remorse - is Memory - awake -
Her Parties all astir -
A Presence of Departed Acts -
At window - and at Door -

Its Past - set down before the Soul
And lighted with a Match -
Perusal - to facilitate -
And help Belief to stretch -

Remorse is cureless - the Disease
Not even God - can heal -
For 'tis His institution - and
The Adequate of Hell -

Friday, January 3, 2003
Topic(s) of this poem: memory
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 30 March 2016

..............wonderful poem, and true, to lose one's memory would be the worst thing imaginable ★

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Curtis Johnson 29 October 2015

Such a definition of remorse is well stated, for we can only be remorseful for that which we recall. I pray that God's Grace shall always accompany my recalls, for I am not inclined to be remorseful. Should I not want to forgive Me?

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Emily Dickinson

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Amherst / Massachusetts
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