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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Compensation


For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.

For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years —
Bitter contested farthings —
And Coffers heaped with Tears!

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. The Moon Is Distant from the Sea
  2. The Only Ghost I Ever Saw
  3. What Inn Is This
  4. Saved!
  5. Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Jean Ingelow Compensation ("One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea")
  • Helen Cone Compensation ("The brook ran laughing from the shade")
  • Edgar Guest Compensation ("I'd like to think when life is done")
  • Ralph Emerson Compensation ("Why should I keep holiday")
  • Celia Thaxter Compensation ("In that new world toward which our feet are set")
  • Sara Teasdale Compensation ("I should be glad of loneliness")

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