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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
[section]
[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
1.
I. CHOICE.
2.
[II. I have no life but this]
3.
[III. Your riches taught me poverty]
4.
IV. THE CONTRACT.
5.
V. THE LETTER.
6.
[VI. The way I read a letter's this]
7.
[VII. Wild nights! Wild nights!]
8.
VIII. AT HOME.
9.
IX. POSSESSION.
10.
[X. A charm invests a face]
11.
XI. THE LOVERS.
12.
[XII. In lands I never saw, they say]
13.
[XIII. The moon is distant from the sea]
14.
[XIV. He put the belt around my life]
15.
XV. THE LOST JEWEL.
16.
[XVI. What if I say I shall not wait?]
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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XXXV.
THE RAT.
The
rat is the concisest tenant.
He pays no rent,—
Repudiates the obligation,
On schemes intent.
Balking our wit
To sound or circumvent,
Hate cannot harm
A foe so reticent.
Neither decree
Prohibits him,
Lawful as
Equilibrium.
Poems by Emily Dickinson