Read the poem: “Two swimmers wrestled on the spar”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

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Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

Until the morning sun,

When one turned smiling to the land.

O God, the other one!

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The stray ships passing spied a face

Upon the waters borne,

With eyes in death still begging raised,

And hands beseeching thrown.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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