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Emily Dickinson

I’m Nobody

Two young women dressed in clothes from the 1850s sitting together in a field on a summer's day and laughing

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!

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Read by Karen Savage · Source: Librivox.org

About the poet

Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
1830-1886

 
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