Read the poem: “On the bleakness of my lot”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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On the bleakness of my lot

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On the bleakness of my lot

   Bloom I strove to raise.

Late, my acre of a rock

   Yielded grape and maize.

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Soil of flint if steadfast tilled

   Will reward the hand;

Seed of palm by Lybian sun

   Fructified in sand.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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