The going from a world we know

Portrait of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
1603Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The going from a world we know To one a wonder still Is like the child's adversity Whose vista is a hill, Behind the hill is sorcery And everything unknown, But will the secret compensate For climbing it alone?

From the bookComplete Poems of Emily DickinsonEdited by Thomas H. Johnson (Little, Brown)

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  1. Frere Jacque France

    When I first come to America I read Emily Dickinson. She help me through hard times when I learn English. I really inspired by her poems. This make me love America more.

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