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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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Our share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards — day!



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Going
  2. I Have a King Who Does Not Speak
  3. I Know a Place Where Summer Strives
  4. Pompless No Life Can Pass Away
  5. Saturday Afternoon


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