I had no time to hate, because
In "I had no time to hate, because," Emily Dickinson weighs love against enmity in just eight lines. The speaker looks at life's brevity and the grave waiting at the end, and decides that hatred is a task there is no time to finish. Love is not an obvious alternative, yet it becomes a quiet, modest labor. The mood is wry, restrained and reflective, with a surprising turn in the second stanza.
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