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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ECLAT OF DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had he the power to spurn!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1307;poem: 1363
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Last Line: Had he the power to spurn!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1307;poem: 1363
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
THAT short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'T is almost consequence,
Is the eclat of death.
Oh, thou unknown renown
That not a beggar would accept,
Had he the power to spurn!
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