QuoteQuest“After great pain, a formal feeling comes -The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
After great pain, a formal feeling comes (Fr)
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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
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