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Poems by Emily Dickinson

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Wert Thou but ill -- that I might show thee

... Nor the least signal, Me assure --Wert Thou but Stranger in ungracious country -- ...

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What care the Dead, for Chanticleer --

... As soon the South -- her BreezeOf Sycamore -- or Cinnamon -- ...

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What did They do since I saw Them?

... Have I the eagernessThat could I snatch Their Faces ...

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What I can do -- I will

... Though it be little as a Daffodil -- ...

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What I see not, I better see --

... The Features so beloved ---And I arise -- and in my Dream -- ...

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What if I say I shall not wait!

... Unmeaning -- now -- to me --As laughter -- was -- an hour ago -- ...

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What mystery pervades a well!

... And does no timidity betrayBut nature is a stranger yet ...

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What shall I do -- it whimpers so

... Or if it dare -- to climb your dizzy knee -- ...

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What shall I do when the Summer troubles --

... When the Bee hangs all Noon in the Buttercup ...

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What Twigs We held by --

... The diligence were not more blindHow scant, by everlasting Light ...

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What would I give to see his face?

... And dappled Cowslip Dells --Then I have "shares" in Primrose "Banks" -- ...

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Whatever it is -- she has tried it --

... Do not chastise the Dove --Not for Ourselves, petition -- ...

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When a Lover is a Beggar

... Different is he --What he begged is then the Beggar -- ...

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When Bells stop ringing -- Church -- begins

... When Cogs -- stop -- that's Circumference -- ...

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When Diamonds are a Legend,

... Do sow, and Raise for sale --And tho' I'm scarce accounted, ...