The Mind
A secret told
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
A secret told
Ceases to be a secret then.
A secret kept—
That can appal but one.
Better of it continual be afraid,
Than it
And whom you told it to
Beside.
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Dickinson, Emily. “A secret told.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/457/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “A secret told.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/457/.
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