Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson

H 341a 
The Luxury to 
apprehend
The Luxury 'twould 
be
To look at Thee 
a single time
An Epicure of Me
In whatsoever 
Presence makes
Till for a further 
Food
I scarcely recollect 
to starve
H 341b

 
So first am I 
supplied -
The Luxury to 
meditate
The Luxury it was
To banquet on 
thy Countenance
A Sumptuousness 
bestows
On plainer Days, 
whose Table, far
As Certainty - can see -
Is laden with a 
single Crumb -
H 341c

 
The Consciousness - of Thee.
Emily.
 

H 341

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