Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEHOLD THIS LITTLE BANE, by EMILY DICKINSON



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Last Line: Its tantamount be found
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1438; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Love


Behold this little Bane -
The Boon of all alive -
As common as it is unknown
The name of it is Love -


To lack of it is Woe -
To own of it is Wound -
Not elsewhere - if in Paradise
Its Tantamount be found -






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