Emily Dickinson

Take Your Heaven Further on

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Take Your Heaven Further on - fact Summary

Published Posthumously in 1891

This poem was first printed in 1891 in the volume Poems by Emily Dickinson. Its appearance in that collected edition helped introduce Dickinson’s short, untitled lyrics to a wider reading public after her death. Knowing the poem entered the canon through that 1891 publication helps explain why its concise, elliptical voice reached many readers in the form and ordering chosen by early editors.

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Take your Heaven further on This to Heaven divine Has gone Had You earlier blundered in Possibly, e’en You had seen An Eternity put on Now to ring a Door beyond Is the utmost of Your Hand To the Skies apologize Nearer to Your Courtesies Than this Sufferer polite Dressed to meet You See in White!

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