Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson


H ST 23c
To see her is a picture
To hear [her] is a Tune
To know her an intemperance
As innocent as June
By which to be undone
Is dearer than Redemption -
Which never to receive
Makes mockery of melody
It might have been to live

 

H ST 23c


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Transcription and commentary copyright 1996 by Martha Nell Smith, all rights reserved
Last updated on September 21, 1998
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