Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLII ("To hang our head")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
Remembrance
The Brain

XLII

To hang our head ostensibly,
And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind,
Affords the sly presumption
That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of gauze!
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