This Is My Letter to the World

Emily Dickinson(1830–1886)

Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890

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!

From Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890), where it opens the volume as "Prelude", via the English Wikisource transcription.

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