The Mind
Of Death the sharpest function
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
Of Death the sharpest function,
That, just as we discern,
The Excellence defies us;
Securest gathered then
The fruit perverse to plucking,
But leaning to the sight
With the ecstatic limit
Of unobtained Delight.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Of Death the sharpest function.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/701/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Of Death the sharpest function.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/701/.
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