(10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

poet Emily Dickinson
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"Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!

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"Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!
The Apple on the Tree—
Provided it do hopeless—hang—
That—"He aven" is—to Me!

The Color, on the Cruising Cloud—
The interdicted Land—
Behind the Hill—the House behind—
There—Paradise—is found!

Her teasing Purples—Afternoons—
The credulous—decoy—
Enamored—of the Conjuror—
That spurned us—Yesterday!

Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003


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  • C H (5/9/2013 1:54:00 PM)

    Awsome poem Emily you did make it

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  • * Sunprincess * (9/27/2012 12:46:00 PM)

    maybe not in this life..but Emily something tells me you did reach heaven dear angel.. :)

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  • Syafiqa Syaqireen Azmi (9/3/2012 6:24:00 AM)

    she has a miraculous way of thinking. i love all her work.

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  • Godfrey Morris (8/1/2012 6:45:00 AM)

    I love this poem. One of my favourite from her.

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  • Zeinab Alwady (6/2/2012 1:48:00 AM)

    i love u Emily Dickinson.

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  • Dr.subhendu Kar (11/4/2011 3:02:00 PM)

    simple wonderful write by imagery

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  • David Sentell (12/22/2010 4:29:00 PM)

    This poem uses the idea of Paradise/Eden at the beginning of Creation, and Eve's choice, which she considers a foolishly sexist story, to show her denial of the religion as a whole.Try reading it out loud using a resentful tone, and the poem begins to make more sense.She isn't lamenting that she can never go to Heaven...she is bitterly stating that the whole concept upon which Christianity is based is foolish, and she will never achieve it, because it is not there to achieve.

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  • Ramesh T A (8/1/2010 4:15:00 PM)

    Oldest story is said in a three stanza poem well!

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  • JOSEPH POEWHIT (8/1/2010 6:23:00 AM)

    The Kingdom of God is within a person. In matters of time and space, you are in a heaven or a hell now, occupying a space in the whole universe.

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  • Papermoon Woods (10/6/2009 10:43:00 PM)

    I love this poem! :)

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