Renunciation -- is a piercing Virtue --
The letting go
A Presence -- for an Expectation --
Not now --
The putting out of Eyes --
Just Sunrise --
Lest Day --
Day's Great Progenitor --
Outvie
Renunciation -- is the Choosing
Against itself --
Itself to justify
Unto itself --
When larger function --
Make that appear --
Smaller -- that Covered Vision -- Here --

Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 745. Renunciation -- is a piercing Virtue --
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day: May 10 2005
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