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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Two: Love 28. A charm invests a face

A charm invests a face

Imperfectly beheld, --

The lady dare not lift her veil

For fear it be dispelled.


But peers beyond her mesh,

And wishes, and denies, --

Lest interview annul a want

That image satisfies.

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