No crowd that has occurred (111)
No crowd that has occurred
Exhibit, I suppose,
The general attendance
That Resurrection does.
Circumference be free,
The long-subjected Grave
Assert his primogeniture,
The Dust adjust and live.
On atoms features place,
All multitudes that were
Efface in the comparison,
As suns annul a star.
Solemnity prevail,
Its individual doom
Possess each separate consciousness,
August, resistless, dumb.
What duplicate exist —
What parallel can be —
Of the stupendousness of this
To universe and me ?
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.
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.