Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson

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Title Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1959
Authors Dickinson, E.
Publisher ANCHOR BOOKS
Keywords psychic prison
Notes psychic prison

I never hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation
A flying attitude!

I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars
Only to fail again!