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I like a look of Agony

Emily Dickinson
Track 35 on Emily Dickinson 
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I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it's true--
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor simulate, a Throe--

The Eyes glaze once — and that is Death--
Impossible to feign
The Beads upon the Forehead
By homely Anguish strung.

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Emily Dickinson (2015)
M. Alexander
  1. 1.
    Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue” (2)
  2. 2.
    The Author to her Book
  3. 3.
    A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment
  4. 4.
    To my Dear and Loving Husband
  5. 6.
    Prologue to Preparatory Meditations
  6. 7.
    Upon Wedlock, and the Death of Children
  7. 8.
    Huswifery
  8. 9.
    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Chapter 1)
  9. 10.
    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Chapter 3)
  10. 11.
    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Chapter 2)
  11. 12.
    Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage
  12. 13.
    Columbus’ Letter to the King and Queen of Spain
  13. 14.
    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
  14. 15.
    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Chap. 1)
  15. 16.
    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Chap. 2)
  16. 17.
    On Being Brought from Africa to America
  17. 18.
    To the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth
  18. 19.
    To the University of Cambridge, in New England
  19. 20.
    On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
  20. 21.
    To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works
  21. 23.
    Young Goodman Brown
  22. 24.
    Twice Told Tales (The Minister’s Black Veil)
  23. 25.
    Nature
  24. 26.
    Economy
  25. 27.
    Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
  26. 28.
    Conclusion
  27. 29.
    A Psalm of Life
  28. 30.
    Song of Myself
  29. 31.
    When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
  30. 32.
    Success is counted Sweetest
  31. 33.
    I taste a liquor never brewed
  32. 34.
    Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)
  33. 35.
    I like a look of Agony
  34. 36.
    I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)
  35. 37.
    I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs (508)
  36. 38.
    A Bird came down the Walk (328)
  37. 40.
    This World is not Conclusion
  38. 41.
    The Soul selects her own Society (303)
  39. 42.
    Mine—by the Right of the White Election! (528)
  40. 43.
    This was a Poet—It is That
  41. 44.
    I died for Beauty — but was scarce
  42. 45.
    Because I Could Not Stop for Death
  43. 46.
    This is My Letter to the World
  44. 47.
    I heard a Fly buzz (465)
  45. 48.
    The Brain – is wider than the Sky –
  46. 49.
    Much Madness is divinest Sense
  47. 50.
    I Started Early - Took my Dog
  48. 51.
    I cannot live with You (640)
  49. 52.
    Pain has an element of Blank (650)
  50. 53.
    My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun
  51. 54.
    Publication—is the Auction
  52. 55.
    A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
  53. 56.
    Bustle in a house
  54. 58.
    Apparently with no Surprise
  55. 59.
    The Pasture
  56. 60.
    Mowing
  57. 61.
    Mending Wall
  58. 62.
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
  59. 63.
    Design
  60. 64.
    The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
  61. 65.
    Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]
  62. 66.
    The Red Wheelbarrow
  63. 67.
    This Is Just To Say
  64. 68.
    A Sort of A Song
  65. 69.
    Landscape With the Fall of Icarus
  66. 70.
    Danse Russe
  67. 71.
    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  68. 72.
    A Pact
  69. 73.
    In A Station of the Metro
  70. 74.
    The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
  71. 75.
    Oread
  72. 76.
    In Just-
  73. 77.
    I sing of Olaf glad and big
  74. 78.
    Anyone lived in a pretty how town
  75. 79.
    The Harlem Dancer
  76. 80.
    Harlem Shadows
  77. 81.
    The Lynching
  78. 82.
    If We Must Die
  79. 83.
    Africa
  80. 84.
    America
  81. 85.
    The White City
  82. 86.
    How It Feels to Be Colored Me
  83. 87.
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  84. 88.
    Mother to Son
  85. 89.
    I, Too, sing America
  86. 90.
    The Weary Blues
  87. 91.
    Mulatto
  88. 92.
    Song for a Dark Girl
  89. 93.
    Visitors to the Black Belt
  90. 94.
    Democracy
  91. 95.
    Theme for English B
  92. 96.
    Yet Do I Marvel
  93. 97.
    Incident
  94. 98.
    Woman Warrior (No Name Woman)
  95. 99.
    Everyday Use
  96. 100.
    Howl
  97. 101.
    A Supermarket in California
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