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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 101. A face devoid of love or grace

A PORTRAIT.


A face devoid of love or grace,

A hateful, hard, successful face,

A face with which a stone

Would feel as thoroughly at ease

As were they old acquaintances, --

First time together thrown.

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