One dignity delays for all - A poem by Emily Dickinson


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Emily Dickinson - One dignity delays for all

One dignity delays for all --
One mitred Afternoon --
None can avoid this purple --
None evade this Crown!

Coach, it insures, and footmen --
Chamber, and state, and throng --
Bells, also, in the village
As we ride grand along!

What dignified Attendants!
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!

Her pomp surpassing ermine
When simple You, and I,
Present our meek escutheon
And claim the rank to die!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 98. One dignity delays for all Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Oct 1 2002 Comment 5 of 5, added on November 1st, 2011 at 11:57 AM. Brian you are a perpetual idiot... bells Comment 4 of 5, added on November 1st, 2011 at 11:54 AM. Brian, you are a perpetual idiot. bells from United States Comment 3 of 5, added on June 15th, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Even the simplest get great honor and dignity--during their funeral ride! frumpo from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, One dignity delays for all, has received 5 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 98. One dignity delays for all Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: 2013-05-20 13:38:04 Poem of the Day: Oct 1 2002 Viewed 11456 times. Added Jan 9 2004.

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