Nature
Great streets of silence led away
Nature
Great streets of silence led away
To neighborhoods of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.
By clocks 't was morning, and for night
The bells at distance called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Great streets of silence led away.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/275/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Great streets of silence led away.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/275/.
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