Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
125

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ration
To the ecstasy.

For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of yearsβ€”
Bitter contested farthingsβ€”
And Coffers heaped with Tears!
Book: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Please log in to view and add comments on poems