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Grandma Moses - I had been hungry all the years
Identifier
024301
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Emily Dickinson – the Poems of Emily Dickinson
I had been hungry all the years
My noon had come to dine
I trembling drew the table near
And touched the curious wine
‘Twas this on tables I had seen
When turning hungry home
I looked in windows for the wealth
I could not hope for mine
…
The plenty hurt me ‘twas so new
Myself felt ill and odd
As berry of a mountain bush
Transplanted to the road
Nor was I hungry so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The entering takes away