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Emily Dickinson - A Secret told

A Secret told --
Ceases to be a Secret -- then --
A Secret -- kept --
That -- can appal but One --

Better of it -- continual be afraid --
Than it --
And Whom you told it to -- beside --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 381. A Secret told
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day: Apr 7 2003

Comment 2 of 2, added on April 27th, 2006 at 11:09 AM.

This poem means alot to me because it is telling you that a secret can only be kept beetween you and yourself and once it is told you might as well write it on the chalk board in front of a whole class becusea everyone will know.

Tessa from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on June 2nd, 2005 at 7:51 PM.

I really liked this poem because it's so true and while reading it I thought of I Love Lucy. For all the secrets between them.

Nicole from United States

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