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TO TELL THE BEAUTY WOULD DECREASE by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Of introspective Mines
Subject(s): TRANSCIENCE; BEAUTY;

To tell the Beauty would decrease
To state the Spell demean -
There is a syllable-less Sea
Of which it is the sign -
My will endeavors for its word
And fails, but entertains
A Rapture as of Legacies -
Of introspective Mines



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