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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity CXX |
| THERE ’S something quieter than sleep | |
| Within this inner room! | |
| It wears a sprig upon its breast, | |
| And will not tell its name. | |
| Some touch it and some kiss it, | 5 |
| Some chafe its idle hand; | |
| It has a simple gravity | |
| I do not understand! | |
| While simple-hearted neighbors | |
| Chat of the “early dead”, | 10 |
| We, prone to periphrasis, | |
| Remark that birds have fled! |
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