None can experience sting
Who Bounty -- have not known --
The fact of Famine -- could not be
Except for Fact of Corn --

Want -- is a meagre Art
Acquired by Reverse --
The Poverty that was not Wealth --
Cannot be Indigence.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 771. None can experience sting
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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