dots-menu
×

Home  »  The Complete Poems  »  LVI

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

LVI

OF this is Day composed—

A morning and a noon,

A Revelry unspeakable

And then a gay Unknown;

Whose Pomps allure and spurn—

And dower and deprive,

And penury for glory

Remedilessly leave.