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Home » Famous Poems » Emily Dickinson » I have no Life but this --

I have no Life but this --

By Emily Dickinson
 I have no Life but this --
To lead it here --
Nor any Death -- but lest
Dispelled from there --

Nor tie to Earths to come --
Nor Action new --
Except through this extent --
The Realm of you --

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