I Tried to Think a Lonelier Thing, por Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

I Tried to Think a Lonelier Thing

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I tried to think a lonelier Thing

Than any I had seen—

Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in the Bone

Of Death’s tremendous nearness—

I probed Retrieverless things

My Duplicate—to borrow—

A Haggard Comfort springs

From the belief that Somewhere—

Within the Clutch of Thought—

There dwells one other Creature

Of Heavenly Love—forgot—

I plucked at our Partition

As One should pry the Walls—

Between Himself—and Horror’s Twin—

Within Opposing Cells—

I almost strove to clasp his Hand,

Such Luxury—it grew—

That as Myself—could pity Him—

Perhaps he—pitied me—

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