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

I Went to Thank Her

I went to thank her, But she slept; Her bed a funnelled stone, With nosegays at the head and foot, That travellers had thrown,

Who went to thank her; But she slept. 'T was short to cross the sea To look upon her like, alive, But turning back 't was slow.

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