If you were coming in the fall

Emily Dickinson * Track #29 On Poems 1890

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Emily Dickinson

1890

If you were coming in the fall by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson

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This poem expresses the speaker’s painful wait for the return of her lover, anxiously passing time by counting in larger and larger units—starting in seasons and ending in eternity. She is able to wait but unable to count how long.

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The stanza structure is that of a religious hymn, known a...

If you were coming in the fall Annotated

If you were coming in the Fall
I'd brush the Summer by
With half a smile, and half a spurn
As Housewives do, a Fly

If I could see you in a year
I'd wind the months in balls
And put them each in separate Drawers
For fear the numbers fuse

If only Centuries, delayed
I'd count them on my hand
Subtracting, til my fingers dropped
Into Van Dieman's Land

If certain, when this life was out
That yours and mine, should be
I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind
And take Eternity

But, now, uncertain of the length
Of this, that is between
It goads me, like the Goblin Bee
That will not state its sting

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