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Emily Dickinson - I know that He exists.

I know that He exists.
Somewhere -- in Silence --
He has hid his rare life
From our gross eyes.

'Tis an instant's play.
'Tis a fond Ambush --
Just to make Bliss
Earn her own surprise!

But -- should the play
Prove piercing earnest --
Should the glee -- glaze --
In Death's -- stiff -- stare --

Would not the fun
Look too expensive!
Would not the jest --
Have crawled too far!

Added: on April 9th, 2006 at 2:24 PM | Viewed: 7196 times | Comments and analysis of I know that He exists. by Emily Dickinson Comments (1)


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Poet: Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Art)
Poem: 338. I know that He exists.
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

Comment 1 of 1, added on April 9th, 2006 at 2:24 PM.

I read this in a literature class, and i love this for the way she tells her ideas on what she thinks God is like, which is only a transcendent god. Even though God is definately close to us and able to be reached, unfortunately, Emily Dickinson didn't see that.

Haley from United States

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