Poems by Emily Dickinson: Bequest

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
Mine
III

Bequest

Bequest

You left me, sweet, two legacies, —
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.
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