Poems by Emily Dickinson: Escape

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
The Test
Compensation

Escape

Escape

I never hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.
I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars, —
Only to fail again!
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