I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away. My heart goes wandering aroun… - Emily Dickinson

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I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away. My heart goes wandering around and calls for Susie...My heart is full of you; none other than you are in my thoughts, yet when I seek to say to you something not for the world, words fail me. If you were here, we need not talk at all for our eyes would whisper for us and, your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language.

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About Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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Birth Name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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I lived on Dread — To Those who know
The Stimulus there is
In Danger — Other impetus
Is numb — and Vitalless — As 'twere a Spur — upon the Soul — A Fear will urge it where
To go without the Sceptre's aid
Were Challenging Despair.
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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us — don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson · January 30, 1976 Verified in 2 sources · 1 more available Sign up to see the complete provenance
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