Read the poem: “The Soul’s Storm”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Soul’s Storm

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It struck me every day

   The lightning was as new

As if the cloud that instant slit

   And let the fire through.

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It burned me in the night,

   It blistered in my dream;

It sickened fresh upon my sight

   With every morning’s beam.

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I thought that storm was brief, —

   The maddest, quickest by;

But Nature lost the date of this,

   And left it in the sky.

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< < < The soul should always stand ajar
The soul unto itself > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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