American Romanticism

Not with a club the heart is broken

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Not with a club the heart is brokenEmily Dickinson
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Not with a club the heart is broken,

Nor with a stone;

A whip, so small you could not see it.

I've known


To lash the magic creature

Till it fell,

Yet that whip's name too noble

Then to tell.


Magnanimous of bird

By boy descried,

To sing unto the stone

Of which it died.