Sara Teasdale, comp. (18841933). The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917. | | Choice | By Emily Dickinson |
| OF all the souls that stand create | |
I have elected one. | |
When sense from spirit files away, | |
And subterfuge is done; | |
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When that which is and that which was | 5 |
Apart, intrinsic, stand, | |
And this brief tragedy of flesh | |
Is shifted like a sand; | |
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When figures show their royal front | |
And mists are carved away, | 10 |
Behold the atom I preferred | |
To all the lists of clay! | | | |
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