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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. In Lands I Never Saw, They Say
  2. Morns Like These We Parted
  3. Some, Too Fragile for Winter Winds
  4. Ghosts
  5. What Inn Is This


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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