View source for Emily Dickinson, This was a Poet (1929)

==Text==
This was a Poet — It is That<br>
Distills amazing sense<br>
From ordinary Meanings —<br>
And Attar so immense<br>
<br>
From the familiar species<br>
That perished by the Door —<br>
We wonder it was not Ourselves<br>
Arrested it — before —<br>
<br>
Of Pictures, the Discloser —<br>
The Poet — it is He —<br>
Entitles Us — by Contrast —<br>
To ceaseless Poverty —<br>
<br>
Of portion — so unconscious —<br>
The Robbing — could not harm —<br>
Himself — to Him — a Fortune —<br>
Exterior — to Time —<br>

==Critical Edition==
Emily Dickinson. "This was a Poet [1929]." ''The Poems of Emily Dickinson''. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1979. 346 f.

==External Links==
*[http://titan.iwu.edu/~wchapman/americanpoetryweb/dicthian.html Aaron Carter. "Who is the robber, and who is the robbed? : An annotation of Emily Dickinson’s 'This was a Poet- it is That'", from: The American Poetry Web]

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