The Poetry Corner

I Meant To Find Her When I Came;

By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I meant to find her when I came; Death had the same design; But the success was his, it seems, And the discomfit mine. I meant to tell her how I longed For just this single time; But Death had told her so the first, And she had hearkened him. To wander now is my abode; To rest, -- to rest would be A privilege of hurricane To memory and me.