Sweet hours have perished here; This is a mighty room; Within its precincts hopes have played, — Now shadows in the tomb. - Emily Dickinson

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Sweet hours have perished here;
This is a mighty room;
Within its precincts hopes have played, — Now shadows in the tomb.

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About Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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Birth Name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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لأنني لم أستطع أن أوقفَ الموتَ
فإنه قد أوقفني بكل لطف؛
المركبةُ في موكب الموت
لم تحمل سوى أجسادنا
والخلود.
ببطء كنّا نقود العربة ،
فهو لا يعرفُ الاستعجال،
وكنتُ تركتُ و ا رءي
مشاغلي، وأوقات ا رحتي حتى
تأدبًا أمام لطفه.
مررنا بالمدرسة حيث يلعب الأطفال،
وحيث الواجباتُ المدرسية
ناد ا ر ما تُؤدَى؛
مررنا بالحقول
حيث سنابلُ الحبوبِ
تحدّق،
ومررنا بالشمس التي تغرب.
لبرهة توقفنا
أمام بيت بدا كأنه
مجردُ ورمٍ صغير في الأرض؛
السطحُ بالكاد يُرى،
والسورُ حوله
ليس إلا بعضَ ركام.
قرونٌ طويلة هي الحيوات
سوى أن كلَّ حياة منها
بدت أقصرَ من نهار
وأنا
خمّنتُ أن رؤوسَ الخيول
هي الأولى
في طريقها
نحو الأبدية.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

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