Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLII ("Lay this laurel")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
The Forgotten Grave

XLII

Lay this laurel on the one
Too intrinsic for renown.
Laurel! veil your deathless tree, —
Him you chasten, that is he!
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