There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
Emily Dickinson
Track 152 on Third Series
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There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House Lyrics
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House
By: Emily Dickinson
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House
As lately as Today
I know it, by the numb look
Such Houses have—alway
The Neighbors rustle in and out
The Doctor—drives away
A Window opens like a Pod
Abrupt—mechanically
Somebody flings a Mattress out
The Children hurry by
They wonder if it died—on that
I used to—when a Boy
The Minister—goes stiffly in
As if the House were His
And He owned all the Mourners—now
And little Boys—besides
And then the Milliner—and the Man
Of the Appalling Trade
To take the measure of the House
By: Emily Dickinson
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House
As lately as Today
I know it, by the numb look
Such Houses have—alway
The Neighbors rustle in and out
The Doctor—drives away
A Window opens like a Pod
Abrupt—mechanically
Somebody flings a Mattress out
The Children hurry by
They wonder if it died—on that
I used to—when a Boy
The Minister—goes stiffly in
As if the House were His
And He owned all the Mourners—now
And little Boys—besides
And then the Milliner—and the Man
Of the Appalling Trade
To take the measure of the House
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- 3.Hope
- 12.A Syllable
- 13.Parting
- 14.Aspiration
- 15.The Inevitable
- 16.A Book
- 18.A Portrait
- 23.The Lost Thought
- 24.Reticence
- 25.With Flowers
- 28.Contrast
- 29.Friends
- 30.Fire
- 31.A Man
- 32.Ventures
- 33.Griefs
- 35.Disenchantment
- 36.Lost Faith
- 37.Lost Joy
- 40.Alpine Glow
- 41.Remembrance
- 43.The Brain
- 45.The Past
- 48.Desire
- 49.Philosophy
- 50.Power
- 53.Experience
- 54.Thanksgiving Day
- 55.Childish Griefs
- 56.Consecration
- 57.Love’s Humility
- 58.Love
- 59.Satisfied
- 60.With A Flower
- 61.Song
- 62.Loyalty
- 65.Forgotten
- 67.The Master
- 72.Who?
- 74.Dreams
- 75.Numen Lumen
- 76.Nature’s changes
- 77.The Tulip
- 79.The Waking Year
- 81.March
- 82.Dawn (Version 2)
- 86.A Rose
- 88.Cobwebs
- 89.A Well
- 93.The Woodpecker
- 94.Snake
- 96.The Moon
- 97.The Bat
- 98.The Balloon
- 99.Evening
- 100.Cocoon
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- 104.Aftermath
- 109.Ending
- 114.Immortality
- 117.Death
- 118.Unwarned
- 121.Asleep
- 123.The Monument
- 131.Invisible
- 133.Trying To Forget
- 136.Waiting
- 140.Farewell
- 142.Dead
- 147.Joy In Death
- 152.There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
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- 156.Thirst
- 162.Retrospect
- 163.Eternity
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