Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Three: Love XVII |
| SHE rose to his requirement, dropped | |
| The playthings of her life | |
| To take the honorable work | |
| Of woman and of wife. | |
| If aught she missed in her new day | 5 |
| Of amplitude, or awe, | |
| Or first prospective, or the gold | |
| In using wore away, | |
| It lay unmentioned, as the sea | |
| Develops pearl and weed, | 10 |
| But only to himself is known | |
| The fathoms they abide. |
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