A Portrait

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

XVIII.


APORTRAIT.


AFACE devoid of love or grace,

      A hateful, hard, successful face,

      A face with which a stone

Would feel as thoroughly at ease

As were they old acquaintances,—

      First time together thrown.

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