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WHO IS IT SEEKS MY PILLOW NIGHTS? by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: The Phosphorus of God
Subject(s): CHILDREN; NIGHT;

Who is it seeks my pillow nights?
With plain inspecting face,
"Did you, or did you not?" to ask,
'Tis Conscience, childhood's nurse.

With martial hand she strokes the hair
Upon my wincing head,
"All rogues shall have their part in" --
What --
The Phosphorus of God.



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