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Non omnis moriar

I'm wife; I've finished that,

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. I'm wife; I've finished that,
  2. That other state;
  3. I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
  4. It's safer so.
  5.  
  6. How odd the girl's life looks
  7. Behind this soft eclipse!
  8. I think that earth seems so
  9. To those in heaven now.
  10.  
  11. This being comfort, then
  12. That other kind was pain;
  13. But why compare?
  14. I'm wife! stop there!

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