A Toad Can Die Of Light! Poem by Emily Dickinson

A Toad Can Die Of Light!

Rating: 2.8


A toad can die of light!
Death is the common right
Of toads and men,--
Of earl and midge
The privilege.
Why swagger then?
The gnat's supremacy
Is large as thine.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Indira Renganathan 11 November 2016

lashing words on swaggering ego- -good indeed- 10

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* Sunprincess * 20 September 2015

.....nicely penned musings on life and death ★

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Angelina Holmes 05 May 2014

hehehe she says swagger!

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Emily Dickinson

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Amherst / Massachusetts
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