Whatever it is she has tried it by Emily Dickinson

Что было, всё вкусить ей...
Наш Страх, Отец Любви,-
не нашей Ты казнитель -
голубку не клейми...

Не за себя прошенье
оставшейся мольбы,
когда вопрос исчерпан,
словам увясть, увы...

Чтоб не с пустой душой ей
в Твоём чертоге жить -
о нас - за прегрешенья -
ей помнить разреши...





(About 1871, in pencil on a leaf of stationery.
The poem may may refer to Eliza Coleman Dudley,
ED's cousin, who died 3 June 1871.)

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Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- by Emily Dickinson

Whatever it is - she has tried it -
Awful Father of Love -
Is not Our's the chastising -
Do not chastise the Dove -

Not for Ourselves, petition -
Nothing is left to pray -
When a subject is finished -
Words are withered away -

Only lest she be lonely
In thy beautiful House
Give her for her Transgression
License to think of us --


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