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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THERE'S SOMETHING QUIETER THAN SLEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remark that birds have fled!
Subject(s): Corpses
Last Line: Remark that birds have fled!
Subject(s): Corpses
There's something quieter than sleep
Within this inner room!
It wears a sprig upon its breast -
And will not tell its name.
Some touch it, and some kiss it -
Some chafe its idle hand -
It has a simple gravity
I do not understand!
I would not weep if I were they -
How rude in one to sob!
Might scare the quiet fairy
Back to her native wood!
While simple-hearted neighbors
Chat of the "Early dead" -
We - prone to periphrasis
Remark that Birds have fled!
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