Poems by Emily Dickinson: XL ("When I hoped I feared")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
XXXIX
Deed

XL

When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered him.
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