Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
1A toad can die of light!
2Death is the common right
3 Of toads and men,--
4Of earl and midge
5The privilege.
6 Why swagger then?
8Is large as thine.
Notes
7] The existing manuscript version of poem 583, The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin in two volumes (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981: I, 301; fascicle 14; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA), splits the two lines after "is". Back to Line