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“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.”
― The Complete Poems
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.”
― The Complete Poems
“To see her is a picture—
To hear her is a tune—
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June—
To know her not—Affliction—
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
To hear her is a tune—
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June—
To know her not—Affliction—
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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