Empty my Heart, of Thee --

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Written by:

Emily Dickinson (other works)

Poem #:

587

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Language:

English

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Poetry

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Preceded by:

We talked as Girls do -- -586-

Succeeded by:

I cried at Pity -- not at Pain -- -588-

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Empty my Heart, of Thee --
Its single Artery --
Begin, and leave Thee out --
Simply Extinction's Date --

Much Billow hath the Sea --
One Baltic -- They --
Subtract Thyself, in play,
And not enough of me
Is left -- to put away --
"Myself" meanth Thee --

Erase the Root -- no Tree --
Thee -- then -- no me --
The Heavens stripped --
Eternity's vast pocket, picked --