internetPoem.com Login

Undue Significance A Starving Man Attaches

Emily Dickinson

439

Undue Significance a starving man attaches
To Food-
Far off-He sighs-and therefore-Hopeless-
And therefore-Good-

Partaken-it relieves-indeed-
But proves us
That Spices fly
In the Receipt-It was the Distance-
Was Savory-

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Emily Dickinson