Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

poet Emily Dickinson
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This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies

This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
And lads and girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls;

This passive place a summer's nimble mansion,
Where bloom and bees
Fulfilled their oriental circuit,
Then ceased like these.

Emily Dickinson
Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003


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  • Sue Erb (2/16/2008 9:47:00 PM)

    I think of this poem as a stroll through a cemetery, looking at the gravestones and recognizing that each of them represents a unique individual.

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  • Paige Goodman Wolven (11/11/2004 5:10:00 PM)

    The dust was the gentlemen and ladies, does this mean that the gentlemen and ladies were dead? I think so.

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