Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

She Staked Her Feathers—gained An Arc -

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She staked her Feathers—Gained an Arc—
Debated—Rose again—
This time—beyond the estimate
Of Envy, or of Men—

And now, among Circumference—
Her steady Boat be seen—
At home—among the Billows—As
The Bough where she was born—
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