After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,--
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace.
Weeds triumphant ranged,
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.
Winds of summer fields
Recollect the way,--
Instinct picking up the key
Dropped by memory.
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- A Little East Of Jordan
- As Imperceptibly As Grief
- A Moth The Hue Of This
- A Lady Red&Mdash;Amid The Hill
- A Little Bread&Mdash;A Crust&Mdash;A Crumb