February 23, 2007

I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)
by Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

1 comment:

  1. The Soul unto itself
    Is an imperial friend –
    Or the most agonizing Spy –
    An Enemy – could send –

    Secure against its own –
    No treason it can fear –
    Itself – its Sovereign – of itself
    The Soul should stand in Awe –

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