Read the poem: “To hang our head ostensibly”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < To fight aloud is very brave
To help our bleaker parts > > >

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To hang our head ostensibly

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To hang our head ostensibly,

   And subsequent to find

That such was not the posture

   Of our immortal mind,

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Affords the sly presumption

   That, in so dense a fuzz,

You, too, take cobweb attitudes

   Upon a plane of gauze!

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< < < To fight aloud is very brave
To help our bleaker parts > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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