Read the poem: “I went to thank her”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < I went to heaven
I wish I knew that woman’s name > > >

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I went to thank her

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I went to thank her,

But she slept;

Her bed a funnelled stone,

With nosegays at the head and foot,

That travellers had thrown,

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Who went to thank her;

But she slept.

‘T was short to cross the sea

To look upon her like, alive,

But turning back ‘t was slow.

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< < < I went to heaven
I wish I knew that woman’s name > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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