Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/Drama's vitalest expression

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DRAMA'S vitalest expressionIs the Common DayThat arises, sets, about us:Other tragedyPerish in the recitation,This the more exertWhen the audience is scattered,And the boxes shut.
Hamlet to himself were HamletHad not Shakespeare wrote,Though the Romeo leave no secondOf his Juliet,It were tenderer enactedIn the human heart—Only theater recordedOwner cannot shut.
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