Read the poem: “Saturday Afternoon”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Saturday Afternoon

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From all the jails the boys and girls

   Ecstatically leap, —

Beloved, only afternoon

   That prison doesn’t keep.

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They storm the earth and stun the air,

   A mob of solid bliss.

Alas! that frowns could lie in wait

   For such a foe as this!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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