Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHOICE, by EMILY DICKINSON



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First Line: Of all the souls that stand create
Last Line: To all the lists of clay!
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


Of all the souls that stand create
I have elected one.
When sense from spirit files away,
And subterfuge is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!




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