To fight aloud is very brave - (138)
To fight aloud, is very brave -
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Calvary of Wo -
Who win, and nations do not see -
Who fall - and none observe -
Whose dying eyes, no Country
Regards with patriot love -
We trust, in plumed procession
For such, the Angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And Uniforms of snow.
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
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Poet Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Biography
A poet who took definition as her province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints. Like writers such as Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. The speakers in . . .
Poems by Emily Dickinson
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
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