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| Emily Dickinson |
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her
to return home after one year....
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| I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)
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by Emily Dickinson |
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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
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Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin
ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright
© 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright ©
1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. |
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