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598 [632] pg. 104

The Brain – is wider than the Sky –

For – put them side by side –

The one the other will contain

With ease – and You – beside –

The Brain is deeper than the sea –

For – hold them – Blue to Blue –

The one the other will absorb –

As Sponges – Buckets – do –

The Brain is just the weight of God –

For – Heft them – Pound for Pound –

And they will differ – if they do –

As syllable from sound –

1773 [1732] pg. 109

My life closed twice before it’s closed;

It yet remains to see

If Immortality unveil

A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell.

Emily’s work

she wanted to be published but only had a few appear while she was alive

52 poems written 1858

366 in 1862

53 in 1864

1,147 poems discovered in cherry wood cabinet by her sister after her death

1st volume of her poetry published in 1890, 4 years after her death, edited by Thomas H. Johnson

Wrote anywhere from 1775-1800 poems on paper