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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


A Portrait


A face devoid of love or grace,
  A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
  Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances, --
  First time together thrown.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Love's Humility
  2. What Soft, Cherubic Creatures
  3. Desire
  4. Power
  5. Is Bliss, Then, Such Abyss


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Edith Nesbit A Portrait ("LIKE the sway of the silver birch in the breeze of dawn")
  • Harriet Monroe A Portrait ("The little world span round and round")
  • Arthur Adams A Portrait ("HER glance is equable, serene")
  • Dorothy Parker A Portrait ("Because my love is quick to come and go")

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