The Mind
To love thee, year by year
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
To love thee, year by year,
May less appear
Than sacrifice and cease.
However, Dear,
Forever might be short
I thought, to show,
And so I pieced it with a flower now.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “To love thee, year by year.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/756/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “To love thee, year by year.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/756/.
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