Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete · Emily Dickinson
Chapter 29
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TRYING TO FORGET.
Bereaved of all, I went abroad, No less bereaved to be Upon a new peninsula, — The grave preceded me,
Obtained my lodgings ere myself, And when I sought my bed, The grave it was, reposed upon The pillow for my head.
I waked, to find it first awake, I rose, — it followed me; I tried to drop it in the crowd, To lose it in the sea,
In cups of artificial drowse To sleep its shape away, — The grave was finished, but the spade Remained in memory.
