The Mind
There is a solitude of space
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
There is a solitude of space,
A solitude of sea,
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be,
Compared with that profounder site,
That polar privacy,
A Soul admitted to Itself:
Finite Infinity.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “There is a solitude of space.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/751/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “There is a solitude of space.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/751/.
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