Emily Dickinson – MY nosegays are for captives

Epigram

 

MY nosegays are for captives;

   Dim, long-expectant eyes,

Fingers denied the plucking,

   Patient till paradise

 

To such, if they should whisper

   Of morning and the moor,

They bear no other errand,

   And I, no other prayer

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