Grade 6 · Poem
"Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
From Poems, Second Series by Emily Dickinson (1891) · Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, Emily Dickinson (1891)
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