Literature/Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the World

Emily Dickinson, 1890

Emily Dickinson's short poem presenting her poems as a letter to a world that never wrote to her.

This is my letter to the world,That never wrote to me,—The simple news that Nature told,With tender majesty.

Her message is committedTo hands I cannot see;For love of her, sweet countrymen,Judge tenderly of me!

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