Glee -- The great storm is over -- - A poem by Emily Dickinson


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Emily Dickinson - Glee -- The great storm is over --

Glee -- The great storm is over --
Four -- have recovered the Land --
Forty -- gone down together --
Into the boiling Sand --

Ring -- for the Scant Salvation --
Toll -- for the bonnie Souls --
Neighbor -- and friend -- and Bridegroom --
Spinning upon the Shoals --

How they will tell the Story --
When Winter shake the Door --
Till the Children urge --
But the Forty --
Did they -- come back no more?

Then a softness -- suffuse the Story --
And a silence -- the Teller's eye --
And the Children -- no further question --
And only the Sea -- reply --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 619. Glee -- The great storm is over -- Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Comment 1 of 1, added on January 9th, 2005 at 5:35 PM. I think that this poem not only tells the tale of a shipwreck, very common in her time, but of her life. While reading this poem you can feel the underlining sarcasm, and cynism. Dickinson is trying to tell of a lost love and her bitterness towards live afterwards. "Ring for the Scant Salvation" I think refers to her surviving after becoming heart-broken and yet becoming so downtrodden that it's almost as though nothing of her survived...scant. Musicizdbest from Canada More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Glee -- The great storm is over --, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, 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: 619. Glee -- The great storm is over -- Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: Jul 23 2008, 11:40AM Viewed 2637 times. Added on January 9th, 2005 at 5:35 PM.

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