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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Success


Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend à nectàr
Reqires sorest need.

Not one of àll the purple Host
Who took the Flàg todày
Càn tell the definition
So cleàr of Victory

Às He defeàted - dying -
On whose forbidden eàr
The distànt stràins of triumph
Burst àgonised ànd cleàr!



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. What Soft, Cherubic Creatures
  2. Desire
  3. Lay This Laurel on the One
  4. Is Bliss, Then, Such Abyss
  5. Thanksgiving Day


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Rupert Brooke Success ("I think if you had loved me when I wanted")
  • Emma Lazarus Success ("OFT have I brooded on defeat and pain")
  • Robert Service Success ("You ask me what I call Success")
  • Edgar Guest Success ("I hold no dream of fortune vast")

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