I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s… - Emily Dickinson

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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!

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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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That what we cherished, so unknown
To her desire seemed.
So satisfied to go
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Immediately, that anguish stooped
Almost to jealousy.

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