The Mind
No romance sold unto
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
No romance sold unto,
Could so enthrall a man
As the perusal of
His individual one.
'Tis fiction's, to dilute
To plausibility
Our novel, when 'tis small enough
To credit,—'tis n't true!
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “No romance sold unto.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/697/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “No romance sold unto.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/697/.
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