The Mind
Rehearsal to ourselves
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
Rehearsal to ourselves
Of a withdrawn delight
Affords a bliss like murder,
Omnipotent, acute.
We will not drop the dirk
Because we love the wound
The dirk commemorate,
Itself
Remind us that we did.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Rehearsal to ourselves.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/565/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Rehearsal to ourselves.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/565/.
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