The distance that the dead have gone
The distance that the dead have gone / Does not at first appear;
I'm nobody! Who are you?
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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there 's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They 'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
More poems by Emily Dickinson
Not any higher stands the grave
Not any higher stands the grave / For heroes than for men;
There's been a death in the opposite house
There's been a death in the opposite house / As lately as to-day.
MY ROSE - Pigmy seraphs gone astray
Pigmy seraphs gone astray, / Velvet people from Vevay,