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“I Cannot Live With You” by Emily Dickinson

1 I cannot live with you, Leave a comment on line 1 0
2 It would be life, Leave a comment on line 2 0
3 And life is over there Leave a comment on line 3 0
4 Behind the shelf Leave a comment on line 4 0

5 The sexton keeps the key to, Leave a comment on line 5 0
6 Putting up Leave a comment on line 6 0
7 Our life, his porcelain, Leave a comment on line 7 0
8 Like a cup Leave a comment on line 8 0

9 Discarded of the housewife, Leave a comment on line 9 0
10 Quaint or broken; Leave a comment on line 10 0
11 A newer Sevres pleases, Leave a comment on line 11 0
12 Old ones crack. Leave a comment on line 12 0

13 I could not die with you, Leave a comment on line 13 0
14 For one must wait Leave a comment on line 14 0
15 To shut the other’s gaze down, Leave a comment on line 15 0
16 You could not. Leave a comment on line 16 0

17 And I, could I stand by Leave a comment on line 17 0
18 And see you freeze, Leave a comment on line 18 0
19 Without my right of frost, Leave a comment on line 19 0
20 Death’s privilege? Leave a comment on line 20 0

21 Nor could I rise with you, Leave a comment on line 21 0
22 Because your face Leave a comment on line 22 0
23 Would put out Jesus’, Leave a comment on line 23 0
24 That new grace Leave a comment on line 24 0

25 Glow plain and foreign Leave a comment on line 25 0
26 On my homesick eye, Leave a comment on line 26 0
27 Except that you, than he Leave a comment on line 27 0
28 Shone closer by. Leave a comment on line 28 0

29 They’d judge us-how? Leave a comment on line 29 0
30 For you served Heaven, you know, Leave a comment on line 30 0
31 Or sought to; Leave a comment on line 31 0
32 I could not, Leave a comment on line 32 0

33 Because you saturated sight, Leave a comment on line 33 0
34 And I had no more eyes Leave a comment on line 34 0
35 For sordid excellence Leave a comment on line 35 0
36 As Paradise. Leave a comment on line 36 0

37 And were you lost, I would be, Leave a comment on line 37 0
38 Though my name Leave a comment on line 38 0
39 Rang loudest Leave a comment on line 39 0
40 On the heavenly fame. Leave a comment on line 40 0

41 And were you saved, Leave a comment on line 41 0
42 And I condemned to be Leave a comment on line 42 0
43 Where you were not, Leave a comment on line 43 0
44 That self were hell to me. Leave a comment on line 44 0

45 So we must keep apart, Leave a comment on line 45 0
46 You there, I here, Leave a comment on line 46 0
47 With just the door ajar Leave a comment on line 47 0
48 That oceans are, Leave a comment on line 48 0
49 And prayer, Leave a comment on line 49 0
50 And that pale sustenance, Leave a comment on line 50 0
51 Despair! Leave a comment on line 51 0

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Source: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/gwap/