Rearrange a 'Wife's' affection! Poem by Emily Dickinson

Rearrange a 'Wife's' affection!

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Rearrange a 'Wife's' affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!

Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness -
Blush, my unacknowledged clay -
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood every may!

Love that never leaped its socket -
Trust entrenched in narrow pain -
Constancy thro' fire - awarded -
Anguish - bare of anodyne!

Burden - borne so far triumphant -
None suspect me of the crown,
For I wear the 'Thorns' till Sunset -
Then - my Diadem put on.

Big my Secret but it's bandaged -
It will never get away
Till the Day its Weary Keeper
Leads it through the Grave to thee.

Thursday, September 3, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: wife
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dr Antony Theodore 04 August 2020

Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness - Blush, my unacknowledged clay - Seven years of troth have taught thee More than Wifehood every may! a fine poem. tony

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Michael Morgan 03 September 2015

another Dickinson 'closet' poem.

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Emily Dickinson

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