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There Is A Word
There is a word
Which bears a sword
can pierce an armed man.
It hurls its barbed syllables, --
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.
Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
Time's sublimest target
Is a soul "forgot"!
Which bears a sword
can pierce an armed man.
It hurls its barbed syllables, --
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.
Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
Time's sublimest target
Is a soul "forgot"!
Poetry Books
Poetry
- A Book
- A Charm Invests A Face
- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
- A Thunderstorm
- A wounded deer leaps highest,
- Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- Come slowly, Eden!
- Death Sets A Thing
- Did The Harebell Loose Her Girdle
- Heart, we will forget him!
- Hope is the Thing with Feathers
- I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce
- I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
- I Went to Heaven
- I'm Nobody! Who are You?
- I've Known a Heaven Like a Tent
- My Life Closed Twice Before it Closed
- She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms
- Snake
- Success is Counted Sweetest
- Summer Shower
- The Bustle in a House
- The Mystery of Pain
- The Only News I Know
- The Pedigree of Honey
- There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
- There Is A Word
- There's a certain slant of light,
- There's Been a Death in the Opposite House
- This Is My Letter To The World
- This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
- We Like March
- When Roses Cease To Bloom, Dear
- Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
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