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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Desire


Who never wanted, - maddest joy
  Remains to him unknown:
The banquet of abstemiousness
  Surpasses that of wine.

Within its hope, though yet ungrasped
  Desire's perfect goal,
No nearer, lest reality
  Should disenthrall thy soul.



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. Going to Heaven!


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Coleridge Desire ("Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame")
  • Matthew Arnold Desire ("Thou, who dost dwell alone")
  • Thomas Traherne Desire ("For giving me desire")
  • George Russell Desire ("WITH Thee a moment! Then what dreams have play!")

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