A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances —
First time together thrown.
A face devoid of love or grace,
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem A face devoid of love or grace,
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A bourgeois face? The face of conformity?