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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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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. Our Journey Had Advanced
  2. We Learned the Whole of Love
  3. Doom is the House without the Door
  4. Should You but Fail at — Sea
  5. I Send Two Sunsets


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