Emily Dickinson (183086). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life
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| I NEVER hear the word escape | |
| Without a quicker blood, | |
| A sudden expectation, | |
| A flying attitude. | |
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| I never hear of prisons broad | 5 |
| By soldiers battered down, | |
| But I tug childish at my bars, | |
| Only to fail again! | |
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