Poem - The heart asks Pleasure – first

by Emily Dickinson

The Heart asks Pleasure – first –
And then – Excuse from Pain –
And then – those little Anodynes
That deaden suffering –

And then – to go to sleep –
And then – if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
The liberty to die –

Topic: Hope, Humor

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