Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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Undue significance a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.

Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt. It was the distance
Was savory.

1. Deed
2. When I Hoped I Feared
3. Remorse
4. The Shelter
5. Our Own Possessions — Though Our Own

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