Emily Dickinson (1830–86).

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

IX


THE HEART asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;

And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.


Emily Dickinson (1830–86). She was the first American poet that I read in English, It is so splendid... I really recommend...

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