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Read the poem: “As imperceptibly as grief”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < As children bid the guest good-night
Asleep > > >

As imperceptibly as grief

As imperceptibly as grief

The summer lapsed away, —

Too imperceptible, at last,

To seem like perfidy.

A quietness distilled,

As twilight long begun,

Or Nature, spending with herself

Sequestered afternoon.

The dusk drew earlier in,

The morning foreign shone, —

A courteous, yet harrowing grace,

As guest who would be gone.

And thus, without a wing,

Or service of a keel,

Our summer made her light escape

Into the beautiful.


< < < As children bid the guest good-night
Asleep > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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