This poem by Dickinson is one of my favorite poems. When I was eight I found this poem in a book of my grandfather's and memorized it. When I returned from school after our Thanksgiving vacation to California, I had memorized it and recited it in front of the class. I guess my obsession with Emily Dickinson started early...
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!
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