Lyric Poem · Peace
Than Heaven more remote
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“Than Heaven more remote” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/than-heaven-more-remote
Quick facts
- Poem
- Than Heaven more remote
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 16 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Peace
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 16 lines · 3 stanzas of 4–6 lines
- Line length
- Mostly 6-syllable lines (trimeter length).
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBThan Heaven more remote 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 80162232f7d1d177…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.