"That is solemn we have ended,— (87)" by Emily Dickinson

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December 26, 2020  

That is solemn we have ended,— (87)


Emily Dickinson

That is solemn we have ended,—
     Be it but a play,
Or a glee among the garrets,
     Or a holiday,

Or a leaving home; or later,
     Parting with a world
We have understood, for better
     Still it be unfurled.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 26, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“That is solemn we have ended,— (87)” originally appeared in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, and Company, 1924).

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890.

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
(Little, Brown, and Company, 1924).




 
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