All but Death can be (89)

All but Death can be
Adjusted ;
Dynasties repaired,
Systems settled in their
Sockets,
Centuries removed, —

Wastes of lives resown
With colors
By superior springs,
Death — unto itself exception —
Is exempt from change.

Credit

From The Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, and Company, 1929), edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. This poem is in the public domain.

Author

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890.

Date Published

01/01/1929