Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson


H 302a
Of Death 
the Sharpest 
function
That just 
as we discern
The Excellence 
defies us
Securest gathered 
then
The Fruit 
perverse to 
plucking
But leaning 
to the Sight

H 302b

With the 
Extatic limit
Of unobtained 
Delight.

 

H 302


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