Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you --

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Written by:

Emily Dickinson (other works)

Poem #:

238

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Language:

English

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Poetry

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Preceded by:

I think just how my shape will rise -- -237-

Succeeded by:

"Heaven" -- is what I cannot reach! -239-

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Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you --
Bare your Jessamine -- to the storm --
And she will fling her maddest perfume --
Haply -- your Summer night to Charm --

Stab the Bird -- that built in your bosom --
Oh, could you catch her last Refrain --
Bubble! "forgive" -- "Some better" -- Bubble!
"Carol for Him -- when I am gone"!