Love
The Heart is the capital
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Love
The Heart is the capital
Of the Mind,
The Mind is a single State.
The Heart and the Mind
Together make
A single continent.
One—is the population—
Numerous enough.
This ecstatic nation
Seek—it is
Yourself.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The Heart is the capital.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/577/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The Heart is the capital.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/577/.
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