Emily Dickinson

"Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!"

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Source: Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet known for her innovative and introspective poems that delve into themes of death, nature, and identity.

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