Just Once! Oh least Request!
Could Adamant refuse
So small a Grace
So scanty put,
Such agonizing terms?
Would not a God of Flint
Be conscious of a sigh
As down His Heaven dropt remote
“Just Once” Sweet Deity?

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Just Once!  Oh least Request!

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