Read the poem: “Philosophy”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Philosophy

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It might be easier

   To fail with land in sight,

Than gain my blue peninsula

   To perish of delight.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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