by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I felt a clearing in my mind
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Language: English
Our translations: GER
I felt a clearing in my mind As if my brain had split; I tried to match it, seam by seam, But could not make them fit. The thought behind I strove to join Unto the thought before, But sequence ravelled out of reach Like balls upon a floor.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "The Lost Thought", appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 23, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 23, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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