A Sickness of this World it most occasions
When Best Men die.
A Wishfulness their far Condition
To occupy.
A Chief indifference, as Foreign
A World must be
Themselves forsake - contented,
For Deity.
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- The Face we choose to miss
- Remembrance has a Rear and Front
- These Fevered Days - to take them to the Forest
- 'Twas comfort in her Dying Room
- Whether they have forgotten