No man saw awe, nor to his house

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Written by:

Emily Dickinson (other works)

Poem #:

1733

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Language:

English

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Poetry

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Preceded by:

My life closed twice before its close -- -1732-

Succeeded by:

Oh, honey of an hour, -1734-

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No man saw awe, nor to his house
Admitted he a man
Though by his awful residence
Has human nature been.

Not deeming of his dread abode
Till laboring to flee
A grasp on comprehension laid
Detained vitality.

Returning is a different route
The Spirit could not show
For breathing is the only work
To be enacted now.

"Am not consumed," old Moses wrote,
"Yet saw him face to face" --
That very physiognomy
I am convinced was this.