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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Epitaph
Step lightly on this narrow spot!
The broadest land that grows
Is not so ample as the breast
These emerald seams enclose.
Step lofty; for this name is told
As far as cannon dwell,
Or flag subsist, or fame export
Her deathless syllable.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:- Superiority to Fate
- Hope (Hope is a subtle glutton)
- The Forgotten Grave
- Forbidden Fruit. I
- I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Samuel Coleridge Epitaph ("Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God") Percy Shelley Epitaph ("These are two friends whose lives were undivided") 1822Abraham Cowley Epitaph ("Underneath this marble stone") Katherine Philips Epitaph ("What on Earth deserves our trust?") Thomas Hardy Epitaph ("I never cared for Life: Life cared for me") Edna Millay Epitaph ("Heap not on this mound") Elinor Wylie Epitaph ("For this she starred her eyes with salt") Walter Scott Epitaph ("AMID these aisles, where once his precepts showed") Robert Southey Epitaph ("HERE, in the fruitful vales of Somerset") George Byron Epitaph ("Posterity will ne’er survey") January 2, 1820Dorothy Parker Epitaph ("The first time I died, I walked my ways")
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