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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 87 of 446 · First Series: Time and Eternity

Real

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I like a look of agony, Because I know it 's true; Men do not sham convulsion, Nor simulate a throe.

The eyes glaze once, and that is death. Impossible to feign The beads upon the forehead By homely anguish strung.

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