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Can you name this poem of Emily Dickinson?
During one sit in lecture, I read one beautiful poem of Dickinson about death but I forget to bring my note, so I cannot write down the first line of the poem. I thought to myself I will just gonna go home and google Dickinson's poem about death. And I was surprised by the number of such poem.
The poem I seek for have to do with the following message: if you try to follow the death (by remember them) you become the person you remembering eventually.
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- ?Lv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
The Key
If I may have it when it’s dead
I will contented be;
If just as soon as breath is out
It shall belong to me,
Until they lock it in the grave,
‘Tis bliss I cannot weigh,
For though they lock thee in the grave,
Myself can hold the key.
Think of it, lover! I and thee
Permitted face to face to be;
After a life, a death we’ll say, -
For death was that, and this is thee.
Source(s): Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Conrad Aiken, published by Jonathan Cape 1934