Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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There's Sarah, and Eliza, and Emeline so fair,And Harriet, and Susan, and she with curling hair!
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Given to me without the Suit
Riches and Name and Realm --
Who was She to withhold from me
Penury and Home?
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We -- difficult -- acquire
As Children, who remain in Face
The more their Feet retire.
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Judgment is justest
When the Judged,
His action laid away,
Divested is of every Disk
But his sincerity.
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And all the Earth strove common round --
Without Delight, or Beam --
What Comfort was it Wisdom -- was --
The spoiler of Our Home?
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