Dickinson/Chickering Correspondence: Poem 1580

poems from dickinson to joseph k. chickering

We shun it ere it comes,
Afraid of Joy,
Then sue it to delay
And lest it fly,
Beguile it more and more -
May not this be
Old Suitor Heaven,
Like our dismay at thee?

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