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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat
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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
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