50. “Not with a club the heart is broken.” Part Three: Love. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems

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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Three: Love

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NOT with a club the heart is broken,
Nor with a stone;
A whip, so small you could not see it,
I ’ve known

To lash the magic creature	5
Till it fell,
Yet that whip’s name too noble
Then to tell.

Magnanimous of bird
By boy descried,	10
To sing unto the stone
Of which it died.