Living
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
Living
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one.
Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “A long, long sleep, a famous sleep.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/443/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “A long, long sleep, a famous sleep.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/443/.
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