Who is it seeks my pillow nights?
by Emily Dickinson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
With plain inspecting face,
"Did you, or did you not?" to ask,
'Tis Conscience, childhood's nurse.
With martial hand she strokes the hair
Upon my wincing head,
"All rogues shall have their part in"—
What—
The Phosphorus of God.