Emily Dickinson | Loss and Grieving Through Poetry
Great poetry can stir the mind and heart and conjure up emotions and memories. Emily Dickinson’s was no strange to grief and sadness. The commanding language she uses evokes real sorrow and the confusion of loss. Though her poetry is often very dark and saddening, she does have some that can be particularly beautiful. Below is a poem of Dickinson’s I heard on the radio and found particularly beautiful and somehow uplifting.
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.
- Emily Dickinson
October 13th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
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