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Contents > Author > Emily Dickinson > It feels a shame to be Alive -- 1830- 1886 Previous Next Emily Dickinson It feels a shame to be Alive -- printer friendly version It feels a shame to be Alive -- When Men so brave -- are dead -- One envies the Distinguished Dust -- Permitted -- such a Head -- The Stone -- that tells defending Whom This Spartan put away What little of Him we -- possessed In Pawn for Liberty -- The price is great -- Sublimely paid -- Do we deserve -- a Thing -- That lives -- like Dollars -- must be piled Before we may obtain? Are we that wait -- sufficient worth -- That such Enormous Pearl As life -- dissolved be -- for Us -- In Battle's -- horrid Bowl? It may be -- a Renown to live -- I think the Man who die -- Those unsustained -- Saviors -- Present Divinity -- (#444)   Previous Next

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