I can't tell you -- but you feel it - A poem by Emily Dickinson


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Emily Dickinson - I can't tell you -- but you feel it

I can't tell you -- but you feel it --
Nor can you tell me --
Saints, with ravished slate and pencil
Solve our April Day!

Sweeter than a vanished frolic
From a vanished green!
Swifter than the hoofs of Horsemen
Round a Ledge of dream!

Modest, let us walk among it
With our faces veiled --
As they say polite Archangels
Do in meeting God!

Not for me -- to prate about it!
Not for you -- to say
To some fashionable Lady
"Charming April Day"!

Rather -- Heaven's "Peter Parley"!
By which Children slow
To sublimer Recitation
Are prepared to go!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Art) Poem: 65. I can't tell you -- but you feel it Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Jun 28 2009 Comment 2 of 2, added on November 8th, 2005 at 12:18 PM. this poem makes no sense to me it may 2 jessica but not me im glad u like it keep up tha TIGHT ROLLIN HaRD WORK CUh IM A DUDE from Canada Comment 1 of 2, added on June 23rd, 2005 at 10:08 PM. the poem spoke to me. It made me feel inspired to write more and more until i have the courage to read it. jessica lacey from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, I can't tell you -- but you feel it, has received 2 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Emily Dickinson with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 65. I can't tell you -- but you feel it Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: Dec 26 2009, 3:47AM Poem of the Day: Jun 28 2009 Viewed 15258 times. Added on June 23rd, 2005 at 10:08 PM.

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