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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 316 of 446 · Third Series: Life

Disenchantment

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It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;

Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf.

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