Death & Dying
To hang our head ostensibly
Death & Dying
To hang our head ostensibly,
And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind,
Affords the sly presumption
That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of gauze!
Cite this poem
MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “To hang our head ostensibly.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/322/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “To hang our head ostensibly.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/322/.
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