Summer is shorter than any one --
Life is shorter than Summer --
Seventy Years is spent as quick
As an only Dollar --
Sorrow -- now -- is polite -- and stays --
See how well we spurn him --
Equally to abhor Delight --
Equally retain him --
Classic poem
Summer is shorter than any one --
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- Summer is shorter than any one --
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Themes
- hope, grief, time
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