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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMPENSATION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: For each ecstatic instant / we must an anguish pay
Last Line: And coffers heaped with tears.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 125
First Line: For each ecstatic instant / we must an anguish pay
Last Line: And coffers heaped with tears.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 125
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
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For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
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