Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLV ("Undue significance")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
The Shelter
XLVI

XLV

Undue significance a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt. It was the distance
Was savory.
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