| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16389 |
| QUOTATION: | This is the Hour of Lead—
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow—
First—Chill—then Stupor—then the letting go— |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 341, Harvard variorum edition (1955). After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (written c. 1862, published 1929). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickinson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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