If you were coming in the fall

Emily Dickinson

35 pages 1-hour read

Emily Dickinson

If you were coming in the fall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

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Time stretches endlessly when love is absent, and Emily Dickinson captures this aching uncertainty in her haunting ballad. Test your understanding of how longing transforms from confident patience into desperate doubt in this masterpiece of American poetry.

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