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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEIR HEIGHT IN HEAVEN COMFORTS NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "keeps pleading — ""I don't know." Subject(s): Heaven | |||
Their Height in Heaven comforts not - Their Glory - nought to me - 'Twas best imperfect - as it was - I'm finite - I can't see - The House of Supposition - The Glimmering Frontier that Skirts the Acres of Perhaps - To Me - shows insecure - The Wealth I had - contented me - If 'twas a meaner size - Then I had counted it until It pleased my narrow Eyes - Better than larger values - That show however true - This timid life of Evidence Keeps pleading - "I don't know." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN by EDWARD FIELD THE CITY OF GOD by LINDA GREGG BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION by EMILY DICKINSON |
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