Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

All The Letters I Can Write

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All the letters I can write
Are not fair as this—
Syllables of Velvet—
Sentences of Plush,
Depths of Ruby, undrained,
Hid, Lip, for Thee—
Play it were a Humming Bird—
And just sipped—me—
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