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Early American Poets » Emily Dickinson » Emily Dickinson’s Poetry » I Can Wade Grief

I Can Wade Grief

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I can wade Grief –
Whole Pools of it –
I’m used to that –
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet –
And I tip – drunken –
Let no Pebble – smile –
‘Twas the New Liquor –
That was all!

Power is only Pain –
Stranded, thro’ Discipline,
Till Weights – will hang –
Give Balm – to Giants –
And they’ll wilt, like Men –
Give Himmaleh –
They’ll Carry – Him!

– Emily Dickinson

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(Emily Dickinson’s Poetry)

  • A Book
  • A Precious Mouldering
  • A train went through a burial gate
  • A Wounded Deer
  • Because I Could Not Stop For Death
  • Behind me dips Eternity
  • Bustle In A House
  • Come Slowly Eden
  • Dare You See A Soul
  • Empty My Heart of Thee
  • Faith Is A Fine Invention
  • For Each Ecstatic Moment
  • Going to Heaven
  • Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
  • I Can Wade Grief
  • I Died for Beauty
  • I Felt A Funeral In My Brain
  • I know that he exists
  • I Read My Sentence Steadily
  • I Shall Keep Singing
  • I Shall Know why
  • I Taste A Liqour
  • I Went to Heaven
  • If I Can Stop
  • It Was Not Death
  • Let Down the Bars, O Death
  • Let us Play Yesterday
  • Much Madness
  • My Life Closed
  • Poems On Nature
  • Poems Series One
  • Success Is Counted Sweetest
  • T’is So Much Joy
  • The Chariot (Because I Could Not Stop For Death)
  • They Dropped like Flakes
  • Who Never Lost
  • Wild Nights
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