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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Two: Love 50. Not with a club the heart is broken

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.

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