Time & Brevity
Some things that fly there be, --
Time & Brevity
Some things that fly there be, --
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy.
Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this behooveth me.
There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Some things that fly there be, --.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/13/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Some things that fly there be, --.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/13/.
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