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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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'Tis easier to pity those when dead
That which pity previous
Would have saved —
A Tragedy enacted
Secures Applause
That Tragedy enacting
Too seldom does. 



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Contrast
  2. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
  3. This Merit Hath the Worst
  4. In Lands I Never Saw, They Say
  5. Who Robbed the Woods


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