Safe Despair it is that raves

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

Agony is frugal,

Puts itself severe away

For its own perusal.


Garrisoned no Soul can be

In the front of Trouble,

Love is one, not aggregate,

Nor is Dying double.

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