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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 299 of 446 · Third Series: Life

A Portrait

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A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances, --
First time together thrown.

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