Emily Dickinson

Here you will find the Poem A long—long Sleep—A famous—Sleep of poet Emily Dickinson

A long—long Sleep—A famous—Sleep

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A long—long Sleep—A famous—Sleep—
That makes no show for Morn—
By Stretch of Limb—or stir of Lid—
An independent One—

Was ever idleness like This?
Upon a Bank of Stone
To bask the Centuries away—
Nor once look up—for Noon?