Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Five: The Single Hound
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| HER “Last Poems”— | |
| Poets ended, | |
| Silver perished with her tongue, | |
| Not on record bubbled other | |
| Flute, or Woman, so divine; | 5 |
| Robin uttered half the tune— | |
| Gushed too free for the adoring, | |
| From the Anglo-Florentine. | |
| Late the praise— | |
| ’T is dull conferring | 10 |
| On a Head too high to crown, | |
| Diadem or Ducal showing, | |
| Be its Grave sufficient sign. | |
| Yet if we, no Poet’s Kinsman, | |
| Suffocate with easy woe, | 15 |
| What and if ourself a Bridegroom, | |
Put Her down, in Italy?
(Written after the death of Mrs. Browning in 1861.) | |
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