English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. The Wife. Эмили Дикинсон.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон)

The Wife

She rose to his requirement, dropped
The playthings of her life
To take the honorable work
Of woman and of wife.

If aught she missed in her new day
Of amplitude, or awe,
Or first prospective, or the gold
In using wore away,

It lay unmentioned, as the sea
Develops pearl and weed,
But only to himself is known
The fathoms they abide.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson’s other poems:

1. Summer Shower
2. Psalm of the Day
3. The Sea of Sunset
4. The Outlet
5. New Feet within My Garden Go

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