Read the poem: “Sleeping”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Sleeping

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A long, long sleep, a famous sleep

   That makes no show for dawn

By stretch of limb or stir of lid, —

   An independent one.

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Was ever idleness like this?

   Within a hut of stone

To bask the centuries away

   Nor once look up for noon?

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So bashful when I spied her > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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