Except the smaller size
No lives are round —
These — hurry to a sphere
And show and end —
The larger — slower grow
And later hang —
The Summers of Hesperides
Are long.
Except the smaller size
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Except the smaller size
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