2 of my favorite short peoms

these are just two poems I have stumbled upon that make more sense

By: Walt Whitman

to a certain cantatrice

 

Here, take this gift,

I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,

One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the

                               progress and freedom of the race,

Some brave confronter of despots, and some daring rebel;

But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much

                               as to any.

 

By: Emily Dickinson

 

My life closed twice before its close-

It remains to see

If immortality unveil

a third event to me

 

So huge, so hopeless to conceive

As these that twice befell

Parting is all we know of heaven

And all we need of hell