Emily Dickinson (American poet, 1830–1886)
First published in The complete poems of Emily Dickinson in 1924.

 

 

A DEATH-BLOW is a life-blow to some

Who, till they died, did not alive become;

Who, had they lived, had died, but when

They died, vitality begun.

 

 

 

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