I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish -- you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- A Dying Tiger&Mdash;Moaned For Drink
- A Coffin—is A Small Domain
- Because I Could Not Stop For Death
- "Heaven" Has Different Signs&Mdash;To Me
- "Heaven"—Is What I Cannot Reach!