Poem 7. (J 282: 1861/1929) Emily Dickinson

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ORIGINAL POEMS Emily Dickinson Further Poems Emily Dickinson Martha Dickinson Bianchi Boston Little, Brown and Company 1929 The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Centenary Edition Emily Dickinson Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson Boston Little, Brown and Company 1930 Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems Emily Dickinson Thomas H. Johnson Boston Little, Brown and Company 1961
Poem 7. (J 282: 1861/1929) How noteless Men men , and Pleiads, stand, Pleiads stand Pleiads stand Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One one is rapt wrapt Forever from the Eye eye — . Members of the Invisible, Existing , while we stare , In Leagueless leagueless Opportunity opportunity , O'ertakeless O'er-take-less , as the Air air — . Why didn't we detain Them retain Them detain it detain them ? The Heavens with a smile , Sweep by our disappointed Heads heads , Heads, Without a syllable— But deign no syllable But deign no syllable.