Drowning is not so pitiful

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Written by:

Emily Dickinson (other works)

Poem #:

1718

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Language:

English

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Poetry

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Preceded by:

Did life's penurious length -1717-

Succeeded by:

God is indeed a jealous God -- -1719-

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Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise
Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode,
Where hope and he part company --
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker's cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.