A Diamond on the Hand
To Custom Common grown
Subsides from its significance
The Gem were best unknown --
Within a Seller's Shrine
How many sight and sigh
And cannot, but are mad for fear
That any other buy.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1108. A Diamond on the Hand
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

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