Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): A Man

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
Fire
Ventures

A Man

A Man

Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled — he did not fall —
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes —
He neutralized them all.
She stung him, sapped his firm advance,
But, when her worst was done,
And he, unmoved, regarded her,
Acknowledged him a man.
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