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Emily Dickinson

Born in 1830 in Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world and is now linked with Walt Whitman as founders of a unique American poetic voice...
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The Soul unto itself (683)
by Emily Dickinson

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend – Or the most agonizing Spy – An Enemy – could send – Secure against its own – No treason it can fear – Itself – its Sovereign – of itself The Soul should stand in Awe –

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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