Emily Dickinson: There is a Zone whose even Years

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There is a Zone whose even Years

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by Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

Christian : Protestant

19th Century

There is a Zone whose even Years
No Solstice interrupt --
Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon
Whose perfect Seasons wait --

Whose Summer set in Summer, till
The Centuries of June
And Centuries of August cease
And Consciousness -- is Noon.

1865

-- from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson

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Themes

Sun

Recommended Books

	American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich, by Wendy Martin
	Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd / Edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
	The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson
	Dickinson: Poems: Everyman's Pocket Library, by Emily Dickinson
	Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief: (Library of Religious Biography), by Roger Lundin

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