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Poetry

elleng

(137,336 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 07:52 PM Mar 2017

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 [View all]

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

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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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 [View all] elleng Mar 2017 OP

... shenmue Mar 2017 #1

I've got to read more of her stuff. Thanks for that. She's got a kind of joy applegrove Mar 2017 #2

Yes, joy, but also sadness, elleng Mar 2017 #3

Clear as a bell. applegrove Mar 2017 #4

She was a philosopher, could not live a life of illusion, a complex humor happyaccident Jun 2019 #5

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