They Might Not Need Me
Read these lines of verse out aloud.
Read these lines of verse out aloud.
For reading aloud. A little poem by Emily Dickinson, from 1877.
They might not need me — yet they might —
I’ll let my Heart be just in sight —
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
From a letter in the Spring of 1877, to Mrs T. W. (Mary Channing) Higginson. Although Dickinson knew her only through her husband, Colonel Higginson, she often sent a friendly note to her: Emily was aware that she had been in failing health for some years. Mrs Higginson died the following September.
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