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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


A Syllable


Could mortal lip divine
  The undeveloped freight
Of a delivered syllable,
  'T would crumble with the weight.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Contrast
  2. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
  3. This Merit Hath the Worst
  4. Who Robbed the Woods
  5. Disenchantment


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