The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
With confidential moan —
Not mended by Mortality
Are Fabrics truly torn —
To go its convalescent way
So shameless is to see
More genuine were Perfidy
Than such Fidelity.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

2 Comments

  1. kathy says:

    See the “Poem Dress” by Lesly Dill

  2. Blayze Marie says:

    i really liked this poem, seeing as how i could kind of relate to it. it almost makes you think…doesn’t it?

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