Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THERE IS A WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: "is a soul ""forgot""!"
Subject(s): Time; Language


There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man -
It hurls it's barbed syllables
And is mute again -
But where it fell
The Saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted Brother
Gave his breath away!

Wherever runs the breathless sun -
Wherever roams the day -
There is it's noiseless onset -
There is it's victory!
Behold the keenest marksman-
The most accomplished host!
Time's sublimest target
Is a soul "forgot"!




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