Read the poem: “Forbidden Fruit (Heaven is what I cannot reach!)”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Forbidden Fruit

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Heaven is what I cannot reach!

   The apple on the tree,

Provided it do hopeless hang,

   That ‘heaven’ is, to me.

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The color on the cruising cloud,

   The interdicted ground

Behind the hill, the house behind, —

   There Paradise is found!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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