Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886): 'Im 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 banish us, you know.


How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!




101 Great American Poems

Dover Thrift Editions 1998

Edited by The American Poetry & Literacy Project (AP&L Project)



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