Read the poem: “Success”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Success

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne’er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

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Not one of all the purple host

Who took the flag to-day

Can tell the definition,

So clear, of victory,

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As he, defeated, dying,

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Break, agonized and clear!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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