The Poets light but Lamps - (930)
The Poets light but Lamps -
Themselves - go out -
The Wicks they stimulate
If vital Light
Inhere as do the Suns -
Each Age a Lens
Disseminating their
Circumference -
Copyright Credit: THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: READING EDITION, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955 , by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965 by Mary L. Hampson.
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, ed by Ralph W. Franklin (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999)