The Poetry Corner

Three Weeks Passed Since I Had Seen Her,

By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Three weeks passed since I had seen her, -- Some disease had vexed; 'T was with text and village singing I beheld her next, And a company -- our pleasure To discourse alone; Gracious now to me as any, Gracious unto none. Borne, without dissent of either, To the parish night; Of the separated people Which are out of sight?