Read the poem: “The heart asks pleasure first”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The heart asks pleasure first

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The heart asks pleasure first,

And then, excuse from pain;

And then, those little anodynes

That deaden suffering;

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And then, to go to sleep;

And then, if it should be

The will of its Inquisitor,

The liberty to die.

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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