Read the poem: “Undue significance a starving man attaches”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Undue significance a starving man attaches

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Undue significance a starving man attaches

To food

Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,

And therefore good.

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Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us

That spices fly

In the receipt. It was the distance

Was savory.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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