Emily Dickinson - Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day (741) lyrics

Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day That arise and set about Us— Other Tragedy Perish in the Recitation— This—the best enact When the Audience is scattered And the Boxes shut— "Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet— Had not Shakespeare wrote— Though the "Romeo" left no Record Of his Juliet, It were infinite enacted In the Human Heart— Only Theatre recorded Owner cannot shut—