Twas a Long Parting but the Time
poem 625
‘Twas a long Parting but the time For Interview had Come Before the Judgment Seat of God The last and second time These Fleshless Lovers met A Heaven in a Gaze A Heaven of Heavens the Privilege Of one another’s Eyes No Lifetime on Them Appareled as the new Unborn except They had beheld Born infiniter now Was Bridal e’er like This? A Paradise the Host And Cherubim and Seraphim The unobtrusive Guest
Twas a Long Parting but the Time - meaning Summary
Reunion Beyond Mortality
The poem imagines a postmortem reunion of lovers who meet before God’s judgment. Stripped of flesh and time, their exchange is a silent, rapturous gaze that becomes its own heaven. Dickinson frames this encounter as more intimate than earthly marriage: a bridal, paradisal moment in which angelic presence is secondary to the private, infinite recognition between the two souls.
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