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Public-domain poetry · from the anthology

A happy lip -- breaks sudden

by Emily Dickinson

19th-Century American · Short · 8 lines

A happy lip -- breaks sudden -- It doesn't state you how It contemplated -- smiling -- Just consummated -- now -- But this one, wears its merriment So patient -- like a pain -- Fresh gilded -- to elude the eyes Unqualified, to scan --

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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