by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Heart, we will forget him
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Heart, we will forget him You and I, tonight. You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging, I may remember him!
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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), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 2. Love, no. 13, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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