Friday, January 3, 2003

This Quiet Dust Was Gentlemen And Ladies Comments

Rating: 5.0

This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
And lads and girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls;
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Emily Dickinson
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Robert Merrett 20 December 2016

Fantastic descriptive concept of how we are all ultimately from and to the same source

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* Sunprincess * 15 June 2016

..............possibly this passive place is a cemetery...and the dust is the gentlemen and ladies since they say, dust to dust and ashes to ashes ★ extraordinary poem

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Sue Erb 16 February 2008

I think of this poem as a stroll through a cemetery, looking at the gravestones and recognizing that each of them represents a unique individual.

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Paige Goodman Wolven 11 November 2004

The dust was the gentlemen and ladies, does this mean that the gentlemen and ladies were dead? I think so.

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