To hang our head — ostensibly —
And subsequent, to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind —
Affords the sly presumption
That in so dense a fuzz —
You — too — take Cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of Gauze!
To hang our head — ostensibly
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem To hang our head — ostensibly
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