Writings by Susan Dickinson: H ST1d

H ST1d

To tell the beauty would decrease
To state the spell demean
There is a syllable-less Sea
Of which it is the Sign
My will endeavors for it's word
And fails, but Entertains
A Rapture as of Legacies -
Of introspective mines -
Emily


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