Emily Dickinson

Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

 

Lost

by Emily Dickinson

I lost a world the other day.
Has anybody found?
You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its forehead bound.

A rich man might not notice it;
Yet to my frugal eye
Of more esteem than ducats.
Oh, find it, sir, for me!

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Poems
Copyright 1890
Little, Brown, And Company, Boston