Water makes many Beds
For those averse to sleep --
Its awful chamber open stands --
Its Curtains blandly sweep --
Abhorrent is the Rest
In undulating Rooms
Whose Amplitude no end invades --
Whose Axis never comes.
Classic poem
Water makes many Beds
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- Water makes many Beds
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Themes
- solitude, grief, night
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