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Emily Dickinson: Intoxicated by Life

  I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of … Continue reading

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Emily Dickinson’s Geography

    Volcanoes be in Sicily (Poem 1705) VOLCANOES be in Sicily And South America, I judge from my geography. Volcanoes nearer here, A lava step, at any time, Am I inclined to climb, A crater I may contemplate, Vesuvius … Continue reading

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