Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Not any sunny tone

Not any sunny tone
From any fervent zone
Find entrance there -
Better a grave of Balm
Toward human nature's home -
And Robins near -
Than a stupendous Tomb
Proclaiming to the Gloom
How dead we are -
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