(A poem by Emily Dickinson)
There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man –
It hurls it’s barbed syllables
And 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 it’s noiseless onset –
There is it’s victory!
Behold the keenest marksman-
The most accomplished host!
Time’s sublimest target
Is a soul “forgot”!
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. That despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.