Nature
Undue significance a starving man attaches
Nature
Undue significance a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt. It was the distance
Was savory.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Undue significance a starving man attaches.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/159/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Undue significance a starving man attaches.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/159/.
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