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There's a certain Slant of light

Emily Dickinson 1890 9th Grade

There’s a certain Slant of light,

Winter Afternoons —

That oppresses, like the Heft

Of Cathedral Tunes —  

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us — 

We can find no scar,

But internal difference,

Where the Meanings, are — 

None may teach it — Any — 

‘Tis the Seal Despair — 

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the Air —  

When it comes, the Landscape listens — 

Shadows — hold their breath — 

When it goes, ‘tis like the Distance

On the look of Death