The Mind
The power to be true to you
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
The power to be true to you
Until upon my face
The Judgment push His picture
Presumptious of your place—
Of this—could man deprive me,
Himself the Heaven excel,
Whose invitation yours reduced
Until it shone too small.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The power to be true to you.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/590/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The power to be true to you.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/590/.
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