Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SOLEMN THING IT WAS, I SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "and I sneered — softly — ""small""!" Subject(s): Life; Size & Shape | ||||||||
A solemn thing - it was - I said - A woman - white - to be - And wear - if God should count me fit - Her blameless mystery - A hallowed thing - to drop a life Into the purple well - Too plummetless - that it return - Eternity - until - I pondered how the bliss would look - And would it feel as big - When I could take it in my hand - As hovering - seen - through fog - And then - the size of this "small" life - The Sages - call it small - Swelled - like Horizons - in my vest - And I sneered - softly - "small"! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEN WITH SMALL HEADS by THOMAS LUX SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ANY SIZE WE PLEASE by ROBERT FROST EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN by ROBERT BURNS ON SIM AND SIMON by CHARLES COTTON |
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