Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe
A Traitor is the Bee
His service to the newest Grace
Present continually

His Suit a chance
His Troth a Term
Protracted as the Breeze
Continual Ban propoundeth He
Continual Divorce.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe

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