Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s Mouth —

Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s Mouth —
Widths out of the Sun —
And look — and shudder, and block your breath —
And deem to be alone

In such a place, what horror,
How Goblin it would be —
And fly, as ’twere pursuing you?
Then Loneliness — looks so —

Did you ever look in a Cannon’s face —
Between whose Yellow eye —
And yours — the Judgment intervened —
The Question of “To die” —

Extemporizing in your ear
As cool as Satyr’s Drums —
If you remember, and were saved —
It’s liker so — it seems —

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s Mouth —

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