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PEACE by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I MANY TIMES THOUGHT PEACE HAD COME
Last Line: BEFORE THE HARBOR LIE.
Subject(s): HALLUCINATIONS & ILLUSIONS; LONGING; PEACE;
I MANY times thought peace had come,
When peace was far away;
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
At centre of the sea,

And struggle slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
How many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.



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