Read the poem: “Desire”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < Delight becomes pictorial
Disenchantment > > >

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Desire

Who never wanted, — maddest joy

   Remains to him unknown:

The banquet of abstemiousness

   Surpasses that of wine.

Within its hope, though yet ungrasped

   Desire’s perfect goal,

No nearer, lest reality

   Should disenthrall thy soul.

< < < Delight becomes pictorial
Disenchantment > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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