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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


The Secret


Some things that fly there be, —
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy.

Some things that stay there be, —
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this behooveth me.

There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Our Journey Had Advanced
  2. We Learned the Whole of Love
  3. Doom is the House without the Door
  4. I Send Two Sunsets
  5. Should You but Fail at — Sea


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Edward Sill The Secret ("A TIDE of sun and song in beauty broke")
  • Katherine Mansfield The Secret ("In the profoundest ocean")

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