Lyric Poem · Peace
A Pit—but Heaven over it
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“A Pit—but Heaven over it” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/a-pit-but-heaven-over-it
Quick facts
- Poem
- A Pit—but Heaven over it
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 17 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Peace, Summer, Death & Loss
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 17 lines · 3 stanzas of 4–8 lines
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Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBA Pit—but Heaven over it by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 c28178999933f7d9…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.