The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime by Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi

The Difference Between Despair

THE difference between despair And fear, is like the one Between the instant of a wreck, And when the wreck has been.

The mind is smooth,–no motion– Contented as the eye Upon the forehead of a Bust, That knows it cannot see.

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