The feet of people walking home - A poem by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson - The feet of people walking home

The feet of people walking home
With gayer sandals go --
The Crocus -- til she rises
The Vassal of the snow --
The lips at Hallelujah
Long years of practise bore
Til bye and bye these Bargemen
Walked singing on the shore.

Pearls are the Diver's farthings
Extorted from the Sea --
Pinions -- the Seraph's wagon
Pedestrian once -- as we --
Night is the morning's Canvas
Larceny -- legacy --
Death, but our rapt attention
To Immortality.

My figures fail to tell me
How far the Village lies --
Whose peasants are the Angels --
Whose Cantons dot the skies --
My Classics veil their faces --
My faith that Dark adores --
Which from its solemn abbeys
Such ressurection pours.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 7. The feet of people walking home Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Jan 26 2002 Comment 7 of 7, added on January 4th, 2012 at 10:02 PM. xMHAyHHWNrM Your thinikng matches mine - great minds think alike! Robbie from Honduras Comment 6 of 7, added on June 15th, 2010 at 9:59 PM. Earthly life teaches us that this life is a term of servitude that will be replaced in the next by a joyous fruition. frumpo from United States Comment 5 of 7, added on December 1st, 2009 at 12:40 AM. Dickinson: The feet of people going home I just discovered this site and really read this poem for the first time. I always stopped somewhere around the second stanza. Boo for me! It's a fascinating poem. Isn't it great for backing us up to see importance in terms of its context; i.e. the "canvas" of night for "morning." Gorgeous. I wonder how many other things I can "re-see" that way. Lois Kackley More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, The feet of people walking home, has received 7 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own.

Poem Info
Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 7. The feet of people walking home Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: 2013-05-20 13:26:02 Poem of the Day: Jan 26 2002 Viewed 22210 times. Added Jan 9 2004.

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