Lyric Poem · Peace
The Soul has Bandaged moments
1The Soul has Bandaged moments —
2When too appalled to stir —
3She feels some ghastly Fright come up
4And stop to look at her —
5Salute her — with long fingers —
6Caress her freezing hair —
7Sip, Goblin, from the very lips
8The Lover — hovered — o'er —
9Unworthy, that a thought so mean
10Accost a Theme — so — fair —
11The soul has moments of Escape —
12When bursting all the doors —
13She dances like a Bomb, abroad,
14And swings upon the Hours,
15As do the Bee — delirious borne —
16Long Dungeoned from his Rose —
17Touch Liberty — then know no more,
18But Noon, and Paradise —
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Soul has Bandaged moments
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 24 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Peace, Nature
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 24 lines · 6 stanzas of 2–6 lines
- Line length
- Lines run 6-8 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBThe Soul has Bandaged moments by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 f0b6f2a7c7fd03c5…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.