Read the poem: “Escape”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Escape

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I never hear the word “escape”

Without a quicker blood,

A sudden expectation,

A flying attitude.

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I never hear of prisons broad

By soldiers battered down,

But I tug childish at my bars, —

Only to fail again!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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