by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Forever is composed of Nows —
Language: English 
Forever is composed of Nows —
’Tis not a different time,
Except for infiniteness
And latitude of home.

From this, experienced here,
Remove the dates to these,
Let months dissolve in further months,
And years exhale in years.

Without certificate or pause
Or celebrated days,
As infinite our years would be
As Anno Domini’s.

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Confirmed with The Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, Little, Brown, and Company, 1929, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson.


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