IX.

Name: The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime - IX.
Author: Emily Dickinson

TO be alive is power,

Existence in itself,

Without a further function,

Omnipotence enough.

To be alive and Will-

’T is able as a God!

The further of ourselves be what-

Such being Finitude?

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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "IX.," The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime Original Sources, accessed June 30, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8E8J7KQ9EY31F1R.

MLA: Dickinson, Emily. "IX." The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, Original Sources. 30 Jun. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8E8J7KQ9EY31F1R.

Harvard: Dickinson, E, 'IX.' in The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime. Original Sources, retrieved 30 June 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8E8J7KQ9EY31F1R.