No Man can compass a Despair - A poem by Emily Dickinson


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Emily Dickinson - No Man can compass a Despair

No Man can compass a Despair --
As round a Goalless Road
No faster than a Mile at once
The Traveller proceed --

Unconscious of the Width --
Unconscious that the Sun
Be setting on His progress --
So accurate the One

At estimating Pain --
Whose own -- has just begun --
His ignorance -- the Angel
That pilot Him along --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 477. No Man can compass a Despair Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: 2013-05-21 08:30:46 Poem of the Day: Mar 23 2004 Viewed 5039 times. Added Jan 9 2004.

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