Poems — First Series by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd

I’m Wife; I’ve Finished That

I'm wife; I've finished that, That other state; I'm Czar, I'm woman now: It's safer so.

How odd the girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now.

This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

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