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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
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X.
ESCAPE.
I never
hear the word “escape”
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.
I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars,—
Only to fail again!
Poems by Emily Dickinson