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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BOOK OF MARTYRS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Read, sweet, how others strove
Last Line: Into renown!
Subject(s): Martyrs
First Line: Read, sweet, how others strove
Last Line: Into renown!
Subject(s): Martyrs
READ, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The faithful witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!
Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And celestial women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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