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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... More > |
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| Color - Caste - Denomination - (970)
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by Emily Dickinson |
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Color - Caste - Denomination -
These - are Time's Affair -
Death's diviner Classifying
Does not know they are -
As in sleep - all Hue forgotten -
Tenets - put behind -
Death's large - Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand -
If Circassian - He is careless -
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde - or Umber -
Equal Butterfly -
They emerge from His Obscuring -
What Death - knows so well -
Our minuter intuitions -
Deem unplausible
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