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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHOICE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY WIFE by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP by MARGARET ATWOOD IN THE MONTH OF MAY by ROBERT BLY FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION by EMILY DICKINSON |
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