The Mind
Who is it seeks my pillow nights?
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
Who is it seeks my pillow nights?
With plain inspecting face,
"Did you, or did you not?" to ask,
'Tis Conscience, childhood's nurse.
With martial hand she strokes the hair
Upon my wincing head,
"All rogues shall have their part in"—
What—
The Phosphorus of God.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Who is it seeks my pillow nights?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/769/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Who is it seeks my pillow nights?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/769/.
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