The Mind

Two lengths has every day

by Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

From The Single Hound (1914)

The Mind

Two lengths has every day,
Its absolute extent—
And area superior
By hope or heaven lent.
Eternity will be
Velocity, or pause,
At fundamental signals
From fundamental laws.
To die, is not to go—
On doom's consummate chart
No territory new is staked,
Remain thou as thou art.

MLA

Dickinson, Emily. “Two lengths has every day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/764/.

Chicago

Dickinson, Emily. “Two lengths has every day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/764/.

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