Death & Dying
All but Death can be
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Death & Dying
All but Death can be
Adjusted;
Dynasties repaired,
Systems settled in their
Sockets,
Centuries removed,—
Wastes of lives resown
With colors
By superior springs,
Death—unto itself exception—
Is exempt from change.
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Dickinson, Emily. “All but Death can be.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/462/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “All but Death can be.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/462/.
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