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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIALS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death sets a thing significant / the eye had hurried by Last Line: Too costly for repairs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
Death sets a thing significant The eye had hurried by, Except a perished creature Entreat us tenderly . To ponder little workmanships In crayon or in wool, With "This was last her fingers did," Industrious until . The thimble weighed too heavily, The stitches stopped themselves, And then 't was put among the dust Upon the closet shelves. . A book I have, a friend gave, Whose pencil, here and there, Had notched the place that pleased him, -- At rest his fingers are. . Now when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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