by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Upon the gallows hung a wretch
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Language: English
Our translations: GER
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. "'Twas all I had," she stricken gasped; Oh, what a livid boon!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 22 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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