Read the poem: “Upon the gallows hung a wretch”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch

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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,

   Too sullied for the hell

To which the law entitled him.

   As nature’s curtain fell

The one who bore him tottered in,

   For this was woman’s son.

”T was all I had,’ she stricken gasped;

   Oh, what a livid boon!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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