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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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A Toad, can die of Light -
Death is the Common Right
Of Toads and Men -
Of Earl and Midge
The privilege -
Why swagger, then?
The Gnat's supremacy is large as Thine -

Life - is a different Thing -
So measure Wine -
Naked of Flask - Naked of Cask -
Bare Rhine -
Which Ruby's mine?

1862

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. The Riddle We Can Guess
  2. Playmates
  3. Resurgam
  4. The Martyrs
  5. Surgeons Must Be Very Careful


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