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SLEEPING by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: A LONG, LONG SLEEP, A FAMOUS SLEEP
Last Line: NOR ONCE LOOK UP FOR NOON?
Subject(s): SLEEP;
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one.
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Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?


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