The Mind
The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
With confidential moan,
Not mended by Mortality
Are fabrics truly torn.
To go its convalescent way
So shameless is to see,
More genuine were Perfidy
Than such Fidelity.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “The healed Heart shows its shallow scar.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/738/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “The healed Heart shows its shallow scar.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/738/.
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