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In this short Life that only lasts an hour (1292)… | Poetry Foundation

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Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in...

Share In this short Life that only lasts an hour How much - how little - is within our power Copyright Credit: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition , edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University of Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957,

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