Poems by Emily Dickinson: IX ("The heart asks")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
VIII
In a Library

IX

The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
 
.com/texts/literature/poems-1-dickenson/Life/poem9.html
.com/t/lit/dickinson/1/chapter1/9.html
Sources +