Good night, because we must,
How intricate the dust!
I would go, to know!
Oh incognito!
Saucy, Saucy Seraph
To elude me so!
Father! they won’t tell me,
Won’t you tell them to?
Good night, because we must,
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Good night, because we must,
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Death will bring a new world–I really want to know what it will be like.
Brilliant poem! I like how she adresses God as if she and Death were siblings and Death was teasing her so she went to complain to her Father.
i love it, it takes a truely brillent mind to think up great poems