"I want" -- it pleaded -- All its life --
I want -- was chief it said
When Skill entreated it -- the last --
And when so newly dead --

I could not deem it late -- to hear
That single -- steadfast sigh --
The lips had placed as with a "Please"
Toward Eternity --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Art)
Poem: 731. "I want" -- it pleaded -- All its life --
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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