Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Title
Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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"Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE0074.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2024.

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XXIX.
GHOSTS.

ONE need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop, The stones achase, Than, moonless, one's own self encounter In lonesome place.

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Ourself, behind ourself concealed, Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment, Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver, He bolts the door, O'erlooking a superior spectre More near.

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