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ORIGINAL POEMS: Fascicle 6Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily DickinsonDickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1960The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Centenary EditionEmily DickinsonMartha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete HampsonBostonLittle, Brown, and Company1930Poems, Second SeriesEmily DickinsonThomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis ToddBostonRoberts Brothers1891Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series (html version)
Poem 9 (J 77: 1830-1886)I never hear the word EscapeescapeWithout a quicker blood,A sudden Expectationexpectation,A flying attitude!.I never hear of prisons broadBy soldiers battered down,But I tug childish at my barbars—,—Only to fail again!